#0232 · 🦊 mammals
Central American Agouti
🇳🇱 Midden-Amerikaanse Agoeti ·Dasyprocta punctata
📍 Reserva Curicancha, Provincia de Puntarenas, Monteverde, Costa Rica
📍 Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica
📍 Parque de la Vida, Armenia, Quindío, CO
📍 Timucuy, YUC, MX
📍 Dulce Nombre de Culmí, Olancho, Honduras
📍 Mindo, Ecuador
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Peter Nijenhuis · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © Thomas Shahan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Alejandro Bayer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Benny Albro · CC BY 4.0
- 5. Reserva Curicancha, Provincia de Puntarenas, Monteverde, Costa Rica:© Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0
- 6. Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica:© Ryan Andrews · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Parque de la Vida, Armenia, Quindío, CO:© Andrés Andrade · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Timucuy, YUC, MX:© Mauricio L · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Dulce Nombre de Culmí, Olancho, Honduras:© Eric van den Berghe · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Mindo, Ecuador:© Jason Hill · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The Central American agouti ( Dasyprocta punctata ) is a species of agouti from the family Dasyproctidae. The main portion of its range is from Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula (southern Mexico), through Central America, to northwestern Ecuador, Colombia and far western Venezuela. A highly disjunct population is found in southeastern Peru, far southwestern Brazil, Bolivia, western Paraguay and far northwestern Argentina. The disjunct population has been treated as a separate species, the brown agouti ( Dasyprocta variegata ), but...
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.
- 19,325 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by John Edward Gray in 1842 (184 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Central American Agouti
- Nederlands
- Midden-Amerikaanse Agoeti
- scientific name
- Dasyprocta punctata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Rodentia
- family
- Dasyproctidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 19,325
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1842 by John Edward Gray
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Dasyproctidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 43712, Wikidata Q1762247, GBIF 2437576, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.