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GENUS Dymecodon

Author:True, 1886.
Citation:Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 9: 97.
Type Species:Dymecodon pilirostris True, 1886.
Comments:Often included in Urotrichus, as in the last edition (Hutterer, 1993a), but morphological (Imaizumi, 1970b) and genetical data (Shinohara et al., 2003) support generic status.
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SPECIES pilirostris

Synonyms:

    Dimecodon Coues, 1889

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