HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER PERAMELEMORPHIA
FAMILY Chaeropodidae
Author: | Gill, 1872. | Citation: | Smithson. Misc. Collect., 11: 26. | Comments: | A subfamily of Peramelidae according to McKenna and Bell (1997), who included Thylacomyidae as a synonym. Molecular data (Westerman et al., 1999, 2001) do not support this arrangement, but indicate that Chaeropus is the sister-group of all other Peramelemorphia, so it is given family rank here. |
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