Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-2035
Reference for:
Octodontidae
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:
Octodontidae
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:
Octodontidae
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:
Octodontidae
Octodontidae: Geographic Information
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Jurisdiction/Origin:
Octodontidae: Comments
Comment:
Comments: Sometimes considered the most primitive group of South American hystricognaths with numerous fossil genera from Oligocene on, but Reig (1986:418) reserved this distinction for the Echimyidae. Ctenomys is often placed here as a subfamily, and is closely related to octodontids (see comments under Ctenomyidae and in Cook et al. (1990:22-23). Chromosomal variation is not as conservative as previously thought, 2n=38-102 and includes the only known mammalian tetraploid (Gallardo et al., 1999). Mo...