{{Short description|Genus of mammal}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Capromys pilorides.jpg | image_caption = Desmarest's hutia ''(Capromys desmaresti)'' | taxon = Capromys | authority = Desmarest, 1822 | type_species = ''Capromys pilorides'' | type_species_authority = Say, 1822 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''Capromys garridoi'' (possibly extinct)<br /> ''Capromys pilorides'' | range_map = Capromys Map.jpg }}

'''''Capromys''''' is a genus of rodents that contains Desmarest's hutia, Garrido's hutia, and several recently extinct species, mainly from Cuba,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Varona |first1=L.S. |last2=Arredondo |first2=O. |title=Nuevos táxones fósiles de Capromyidae (Rodentia: Caviomorpha) |journal=Poeyana |date=1979 |volume=195 |pages=1–51}}</ref> although one extinct subspecies of Desmarest's hutia is known from Grand Cayman.<ref name=Borroto>{{cite journal |last1=Borroto-Páez |first1=R. |title=UPDATED CHECKLIST OF ENDEMIC TERRESTRIAL MAMMALS OF THE WEST INDIES |date=2012}}</ref>

==Taxonomy== The genus name ''Capromys'' derives from Ancient Greek {{wikt-lang|grc|κάπρος}} ({{grc-transl|κάπρος}}), meaning "pig, boar", and {{wikt-lang|grc|μῦς}} ({{grc-transl|μῦς}}), meaning "mouse, rat".<ref>{{Cite book |title=Abrégé du dictionnaire grec français|last=Bailly|first=Anatole |date=1981-01-01 |publisher=Hachette |isbn=978-2-01-003528-9 |location=Paris |oclc=461974285}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tabularium.be/bailly/ |title=Greek-french dictionary online |last=Bailly |first=Anatole|website=www.tabularium.be|access-date=2017-10-15}}</ref>

==Species== The following species are considered valid per Borroto-Páez (2012) and the American Society of Mammalogists:<ref name=Borroto /><ref>{{Citation|last=Database|first=Mammal Diversity|title=Mammal Diversity Database|date=2021-08-10|doi=10.5281/zenodo.5175993 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/5175993|access-date=2021-09-27}}</ref>

*''Capromys garridoi'' (Garrido's hutia, possibly extinct) *''Capromys pilorides'' (Desmarest's hutia or Cuban hutia) **''C. p. ciprianoi'' **''C. p. doceleguas'' **''C. p. gundlachianus'' **†''C. p. lewisi'' **''C. p. pilorides'' **''C. p. relictus'' *†''Capromys acevedo'' *†''Capromys latus''

''Capromys arredondoi'' and ''Capromys pappus'' are now synonymous with the Cuban hutia. ''Capromys antiquus'' is synonymous with ''C. acevedo''. ''Capromys robustus'' is synonymous with ''C. latus''.<ref name=Borroto />

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Category:Rodent genera Category:Hutias Category:Taxa named by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest