#0472 · 🦊 mammals
Black Agouti
🇳🇱 Mooragoeti ·Dasyprocta fuliginosa
📍 Maynas Province, Peru
📍 Quijos, Ecuador
📍 La Mesa, Cundinamarca, Colombia
📍 San Antonio del Tequendama, Cundinamarca, Colombia
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Holly Greening · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © David Bell · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Esteban Poveda · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © alesanph · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Thibaud Aronson · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. © Esteban Poveda · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Maynas Province, Peru:© Daniel Branch · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Quijos, Ecuador:© John G. Phillips · CC BY 4.0
- 9. La Mesa, Cundinamarca, Colombia:© ki00 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. San Antonio del Tequendama, Cundinamarca, Colombia:© Ben Costamagna · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The black agouti , Dasyprocta fuliginosa , is a South American species of agouti from the family Dasyproctidae. It is found in the northwestern Amazon in southern Venezuela, eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, western Brazil and northeastern Peru. There is also a disjunct population in the Magdalena River Valley of northern Colombia. 2 lb). It is overall black grizzled white, and the throat is white. Like other agoutis, the black agouti is diurnal, lives alone...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 2,037 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Georg Wagler in 1832 (194 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Black Agouti
- Nederlands
- Mooragoeti
- scientific name
- Dasyprocta fuliginosa
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Rodentia
- family
- Dasyproctidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 2,037
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1832 by Johann Georg Wagler
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Dasyproctidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 43715, Wikidata Q1767371, GBIF 2437581, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.