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GENUS Aconaemys
Author: | Ameghino, 1891. | Citation: | Rev. Argent. Hist. Nat., 1: 245. | Type Species: | Schizodon fuscus Waterhouse, 1842. | Comments: | Reig (1986:408) noted that Aconaemys is not separable from the Pliocene/Pleistocene form Pithanotomys Ameghino, 1887 at the generic level. If indeed the two are not separable, Pithanotomys would have priority as a name over Aconaemys. McKenna and Bell (1997) included in Pithanotomys. Aconaemys appears to by paraphyletic to Spalacopus (Gallardo and Kirsch, 2000; Honeycutt et al., 2003). |
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