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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
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--> SUBORDER HYSTRICOMORPHA
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--> FAMILY Capromyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Capromyinae
GENUS Mysateles
| Author: | Lesson, 1842. | | Citation: | Nouv. Tabl. Regne Animal Mammifčres: 124. | | Type Species: | Capromys prehensilis Poeppig, 1824. | | Comments: | Lesson separated Capromys prehensilis as Mysateles poeppingi; see Varona (1979:4-5). Kratochvíl et al. (1978:15) treated Mysateles as a genus in their new classification. Mysateles was included in Capromys by Woods (1989a:781), Hall (1981:863), and Corbet and Hill (1991:203), however, there is biochemical and morphological evidence to support Mysateles as a valid genus (Borroto, 2003; Camacho et al., 1995). Woods et al. (2001) found that Mysateles was paraphyletic in relationship to Mesocapromys angelcabrerai but was distinct from Capromys. |
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