Category:Unidentified Mitu

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English: Mitu tuberosum was considered a junior synonym (and later a subspecies) of M. mitu into the latter half of the 20th century. Old museum specimens, illustrations, etc. labeled M. mitu are overwhelmingly more likely to be M. tuberosum, given that M. tuberosum, which is distributed across Amazonia, is orders of magnitude more common and widespread than M. mitu proper, which is restricted to a tiny area of northeastern Brazil, was "lost" from the mid-1600s to 1951, and is now extinct in the wild; in 2004, only 8 specimens of M. mitu, including 1 skeleton, were known to exist (and that number likely hasn't changed significantly since).

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