This hutia was recorded on Cayo Juan Garcia in Cuba. The paper describes a broad, low skull, with a depressed area between the eyes and raised outer edges.
The skull is broad and low, with a depressed interorbital area whose outer margins rise upward. The paper uses skull shape to distinguish it from close relatives.
The study reports most finds in coastal grass during the dry season and records in higher ground and mangroves during the wet season. It is mainly nocturnal and may use iguana burrows when threatened.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.