Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-2035
Reference for:
Echimyidae
Source(s):
Publication(s):
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1992-01-01 / 1993-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
Page(s):
xviii + 1207
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication Place:
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-56098-217-9/
Notes:
Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
Reference for:
Echimyidae
Author(s)/Editor(s):
McKenna, Malcolm C., and Susan K. Bell
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1997-01-01 / 1997-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Classification of mammals above the species level
Page(s):
631
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Publication Place:
New York, New York, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
0-231-11012-X/
Notes:
Reference for:
Echimyidae
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Woods, Charles A., and C. William Kilpatrick / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2005-10-01 / 2005-10-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Infraorder Hystricognathi Brandt, 1855
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2
Page(s):
1538-1600
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Place:
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
0-8018-8221-4/
Notes:
Reference for:
Echimyidae
Echimyidae: Geographic Information
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Echimyidae: Comments
Comment:
Comments: This group is complex, and although several important revisions have occurred (Emmons and Vucetich, 1998; Emmons et al., 2002; Laura and Patton, 2000; Patton and Emmons, 1985), additional revisions are needed. The family includes the most primitive fossil New World hystricognaths from the Early Oligocene of Patagonia. Reig (1986) noted that some living taxa in this family with brachyodont and pentalophodont molars (Mesomys and Lonchothrix) are of the type expected in the ancestral New World...