Cuniculus Brisson 1762

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cuniculidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1559-1560 : 1559

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11329199

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scientific name

Cuniculus Brisson 1762
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Cuniculus Brisson 1762 View in CoL

Cuniculus Brisson 1762 View in CoL , Regn. Anim., 2nd ed.: 13.

Type Species: Mus paca Linnaeus 1766

Synonyms: Agouti Lacépède 1799 ; Caelogenus Fleming 1822 ; Caelogenys Agassiz 1842 ; Coelogenus Cuvier 1807 ; Coelogenys Illiger 1811 ; Mamcoelogenysus Herrera 1899 ; Osteopera Harlan 1825 ; Paca Fischer 1814 ; Stictomys Thomas 1924 .

Species and subspecies: 2 species with 5 subspecies:

Species Cuniculus paca Linnaeus 1766

Subspecies Cuniculus paca subsp. paca Linnaeus 1766

Subspecies Cuniculus paca subsp. guanta Lönnberg 1921

Subspecies Cuniculus paca subsp. mexicanae Hagmann 1908

Subspecies Cuniculus paca subsp. nelsoni Goldman 1913

Subspecies Cuniculus paca subsp. virgata Bangs 1902

Species Cuniculus taczanowskii Stolzmann 1865

Discussion: The generic name of this taxon has been debated (see Pérez, 1992), but the nomenclatural instability of this genus was resolved by the ruling by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1998) for the conservation of Cuniculus Brisson, 1762 .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Cuniculidae

Loc

Cuniculus Brisson 1762

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Cuniculus

Brisson 1762: 13
1762
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