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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER HYSTRICOMORPHA
--> INFRAORDER HYSTRICOGNATHI
--> FAMILY Capromyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Capromyinae
GENUS Geocapromys
| Author: | Chapman, 1901. | | Citation: | Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 14: 314. | | Type Species: | Capromys(Geocapromys) brownii Fischer, 1830. | | Comments: | Original use of the name was as a subgenus of Capromys. Included in Capromys by Mohr (1939:75), Varona (1974:67), Hall (1981:865), and Corbet and Hill (1991:203). Considered a distinct genus by Miller (1929), Woods and Howland (1979:112), and Morgan (1985:30). Includes columbianus, pleistocenicus (see Hall, 1981:866), and megas (see Varona and Arredondo, 1979), which are known only from Holocene fossils from Cuba. |
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