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Geocapromys Chapman 1901
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Description
Geocapromys Chapman, 1901. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 14:314.
COMMENT: Included in Capromys by Mohr, 1939, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Hamburg, 48:75, Varona, 1974:67, and Hall, 1981:865. However, considered a distinct genus by Woods and Howland, 1979, J. Mammal., 60: 112, and Miller, 1929, Smithson. Mise. Coll., 82(4):1 —3. GSM considers Geocapromys a distinct genus. Includes G. columbianus and G. pleistocenicus, known only from fossils, probably Holocene, from Cuba; see Hall, 1981:866.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301410024002000000 as Geocapromys.
5301410024002002001 for G. columbianus.
Notes
Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 580, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF85FFD1463DFFA12306FFF55074FFFA (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Chapman
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Capromyidae
- Genus
- Geocapromys
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Geocapromys Chapman, 1901 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982
References
- Mohr, E. 1939. Die Baum- und Ferkelratten- Gattungen Capromys Desmarest (sens. ampl.) und Plagiodontia Cuvier. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Museum und Institut (Hamburg), 48: 48 - 118.
- Varona, L. S. 1974. Catalogo de los mamiferos vivientes y extinguidos de las Antillas. Instituto de Zoologia, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba (Havana), 139 pp.
- Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.
- Woods, C. A., and E. B. Howland. 1979. Adaptive radiation of capromyid rodents. Journal of Mammalogy, 60: 95 - 116.
- Miller, G. S., Jr. 1929. The characters of the genus Geocapromys Chapman. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 82 (4): 1 - 3, 1 pl.