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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER HYSTRICOMORPHA
--> INFRAORDER HYSTRICOGNATHI
--> FAMILY Erethizontidae
--> SUBFAMILY Chaetomyinae
GENUS Chaetomys
| Author: | Gray, 1843. | | Citation: | List Specimens Mamm. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 123. | | Type Species: | Hystrix subspinosus Olfers, 1818. | | Comments: | Included in Erethizontidae by Corbet and Hill (1991), Emmons and Feer (1997), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Voss and Angermann (1997) but some authors (e.g., Miller and Gidley, 1918; Patterson and Wood, 1982; Stehlin and Schaub, 1951; Woods, 1993) have included in the Echimyidae. |
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| Offspring: SPECIES subspinosus | Synonyms:
Plectrochorerus Pictet, 1843
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