Family Capromyidae Smith, 1842 . The Naturalist's Library (London), 15:308.

COMMENTS: Does not include Myocastor, and apparently represents an entirely intra­Caribbean radiation (Woods and Howland, 1979; Woods 1989a, b); also see comments under Myocastoridae . Woods (1982:386-387) included West Indian Heteropsomyinae in this family, but here this group is assigned to the Echimyidae (see comments under Heteropsomyinae). Varona (1974) and Corbet and Hill (1991:203) classified most of the following species in either of two genera ( Capromys or Plagiodontia), whereas Woods (1989a, b) separated them into several distinct subfamilies and genera.