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Octodontidae Waterhouse 1840
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Family Octodontidae Waterhouse, 1840. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1839:172 [1840].
SYNONYMS: Spalacopidae.
COMMENTS: Includes Spalacopidae Lilljeborg, 1866. 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 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, and is 2n=38-102.
Notes
Published as part of Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, pp. 771-806 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 787, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/1D26FFF6FFD8FFD7FFE1FC69FFB0DF05 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Waterhouse
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Octodontidae
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- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Octodontidae Waterhouse, 1840 sec. Woods, 1993
References
- Reig, O. A. 1986. Diversity patterns and differentiation of high Andean rodents. Pp. 404 - 440, in High altitude tropical biogeography (F. Vuilleumier and M. Monasterio, eds.). Oxford University Press, New York, 649 pp.
- Cook, J. A., S. Anderson, and T. L. Yates. 1990. Notes on Bolivian mammals. 6. The genus Ctenomys (Rodentia, Ctenomyidae) in the highlands. American Museum Novitates, 2980: 1 - 27.