Procaviidae, Thomas, 1892

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Hyracoidea, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 312-313 : 312

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Family Procaviidae View in CoL

REVIEWED BY: D. P. Domning (DPD); H. N. Hoeck (HNH); J. Shoshani (JS).

COMMENT: Hyracidae Gray, 1821 , is a group name based on Hyrax Hermann, 1783 . The number of valid species is uncertain; see Bothma, 1971, Part 12:1-8; Corbet, 1979, Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Zool., 36:251-259. Revised by Hahn, 1934, Z. Saugetierk., 9: 207. Also see Allen, 1939, A Checklist of African Mammals; Roberts, 1951, The Mammals of South Africa; Meyer, 1978, in Maglio and Cooke. The generic definitions are also controversial; Roche, 1972, Mammalia, 36:22-49 retained only Procavia and Dendrohyrax but Hoeck, 1978, Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist., 6: 146-151 retained Procavia , Heterohyrax , and Dendrohyrax as separate genera, and is followed here.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301416001000000000.

References

Allen, G. M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 83: 1 - 763.

Bothma, J. du P. 1971. Order Hyracoidea. Part 12, Pp. 1 - 8, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 15 Jul 1971]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.

Corbet, G. B. 1979. The taxonomy of Procavia capensis in Ethiopia, with special reference to the aberrant tusks of P. c. capillosa Brauer (Mammalia, Hyracoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series, 36 (4): 251 - 259.

Gray, J. E. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. London Medical Repository, 15 (1): 296 - 310.

Hahn, H. 1934. Die Familie der Procaviidae. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 9: 207 - 358.

Hermann, J. 1783. Tabula Affinitatum Anim. p. 115.

Hoeck, H. N. 1978. Systematics of the Hyracoidea: Toward a clarification. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 6: 146 - 151.

Meyer, G. E. 1978. Hyracoidea. Pp. 284 - 314, in Evolution of African mammals (V. J. Maglio and H. B. S. Cooke, eds.). Howard University Press, Cambridge, 641 pp.

Roberts, A. 1951. The mammals of South Africa. Trustees of The mammals of South Africa book fund, Johannesburg, 700 pp.

Roche, J. 1972. Systematique du genre Procavia et des damans en general. Mammalia, 36: 22 - 49.