Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-2035
Reference for:
Myocastor
Expert:
Alfred L. Gardner
Notes:
Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA
Reference for:
Myocastor
Source(s):
Source:
NODC Taxonomic Code
Acquired:
1996-07-29
Notes:
Reference for:
Myocastor
Publication(s):
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1987-01-01 / 1987-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Resource Publication, no. 166
Page(s):
79
Publisher:
United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service
Publication Place:
Washington, D.C., USA
ISBN/ISSN:
/
Notes:
Reference for:
Myocastor
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:
Myocastor
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:
Myocastor
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:
Myocastor
Myocastor: Geographic Information
Geographic Division:
Jurisdiction/Origin:
Myocastor: Comments
Comment:
Comments: Patterson and Pascual (1968b:6) included Myocastor and several fossil forms as the subfamily Myocastorinae of the Echimyidae. Based on sequence data, the sister taxon of Myocastor appears to be Capromys (Leite and Patton, 2002). Although this sister taxon relationship is well supported in both parsimony and maximum likelihood analyses (Leite and Patton, 2002), potential problems including taxon bias and long branch attraction have not been fully addressed