Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-2035
Reference for:
Dactylomyinae
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:
Dactylomyinae
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:
Dactylomyinae
Dactylomyinae: Geographic Information
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Dactylomyinae: Comments
Comment:
Comments: Reig (1986) questioned placement of this subfamily in Echimyidae, and raised the possibility that dactylomyines are capromyids. Woods (1993) suggested that if West Indian spiny rats were placed in Capromyidae (see Woods, 1982) then dactylomyines might be too, but left the West Indian forms in their own subfamily, Heteropsomyinae, of the Echimyidae (see comments under Heteropsomyinae). Molecular data clearly place dactylomyine genera (Dactylomys and Kannabateomys) within echimyids (Lara et a...