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GENUS Cuniculus
Author: | Brisson, 1762. | Citation: | Regn. Anim. 2nd ed.: 13, 98. | Type Species: | Mus paca Linnaeus, 1766. | Comments: | The generic name of this taxon has been debated (see Pérez, 1992), but the nomenclatural instability of this genus was resolved by the ruling by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1998) for the conservation of Cuniculus Brisson, 1762. |
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| Offspring: SPECIES paca SUBSPECIES paca SUBSPECIES guanta SUBSPECIES mexicanae SUBSPECIES nelsoni SUBSPECIES virgata SPECIES taczanowskii | Synonyms:
Agouti Lacépède, 1799 Caelogenus Fleming, 1822 Caelogenys Agassiz, 1842 Coelogenus Cuvier, 1807 Coelogenys Illiger, 1811 Mamcoelogenysus Herrera, 1899 Osteopera Harlan, 1825 Paca Fischer, 1814 Stictomys Thomas, 1924
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