Echimyidae Gray, 1825

Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 771-806 : 789

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7279357

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Echimyidae Gray, 1825
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Family Echimyidae Gray, 1825 View in CoL . Ann. Philos., n.s., 10:341.

COMMENTS: This group is complex, and in need of revision. The family includes the most primitive fossil New World hystricognaths from the Early Oligocene of Patagonia. Reig (1986:418) noted that some living taxa in this family with brachyodont and pentalophodont molars ( Mesomys and Lonchothrix ) are of the type expected in the ancestoral New World Hystricognathi . The family is also the most diverse of all Hystricognathi .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Echimyidae

Loc

Echimyidae Gray, 1825

Charles A. Woods 1993
1993
Loc

Echimyidae

Gray 1825: 341
1825
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