Procaviidae, Thomas, 1892

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Hyracoidea, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 312-313 : 312

Family Procaviidae

REVIEWED BY: D. P. Domning (DPD); H. N. Hoeck (HNH); J. Shoshani (JS).

COMMENT: Hyracidae Gray, 1821 , is a group name based on Hyrax Hermann, 1783 . The number of valid species is uncertain; see Bothma, 1971, Part 12:1-8; Corbet, 1979, Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Zool., 36:251-259. Revised by Hahn, 1934, Z. Saugetierk., 9: 207. Also see Allen, 1939, A Checklist of African Mammals; Roberts, 1951, The Mammals of South Africa; Meyer, 1978, in Maglio and Cooke. The generic definitions are also controversial; Roche, 1972, Mammalia, 36:22-49 retained only Procavia and Dendrohyrax but Hoeck, 1978, Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist., 6: 146-151 retained Procavia , Heterohyrax , and Dendrohyrax as separate genera, and is followed here.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301416001000000000.