Myoprocta acouchy (Erxleben 1777)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Dasyproctidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1556-1559 : 1558

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Myoprocta acouchy (Erxleben 1777)
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Myoprocta acouchy (Erxleben 1777) View in CoL

[Cavia] acouchy Erxleben 1777 View in CoL , Systema Regni Animalis, Vol. 1: 354.

Type Locality: French Guiana, Cayenne.

Vernacular Names: Red Acouchi.

Synonyms: Myoprocta acuschy ( Linnaeus 1788) ; Myoprocta demararae Tate 1939 ; Myoprocta exilis (Wagler 1831) ; Myoprocta leptura (Wagner 1844) .

Distribution: Guyana, Surinam. French Guiana, and Brazil north of the Amazon and east of the Rio Branco.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as M. acouchy, Data Deficient as exilis .

Discussion: The name acouchy has been applied to the red acouchi by Thomas (1926 d:639), Cabrera (1961:591) and Emmons and Feer (1997:230-231) and to the green acouchi by Tate (1939), Husson (1978) and Woods (1993). Voss et al. (2001) pointed out that the disagreement among these authors is whether geography or color should be given greater importance in applying the name acouchy . Voss et al. (2001) favored geography and selected a neotype of Cavia acouchy Erxleben (1777) that stabilizes the nomenclature. Includes exilis (Voss et al., 2001:151) , which has been applied to the red acouchi by Husson (1978:468-472) and Tate (1939:151-229) but Allen (1916) considered exilis a green acouchi (see Voss et al., 2001). Karyotype has 2n=62 and FN=120 ( Fredga, 1966).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Dasyproctidae

Genus

Myoprocta

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Myoprocta acouchy (Erxleben 1777)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

[Cavia] acouchy

Erxleben 1777: 354
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