Octodontidae Waterhouse, 1840

Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 771-806 : 787

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Octodontidae Waterhouse, 1840
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Family Octodontidae Waterhouse, 1840 View in CoL . 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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

SubOrder

Hystricognathi

Family

Octodontidae

Loc

Octodontidae Waterhouse, 1840

Charles A. Woods 1993
1993
Loc

Octodontidae

Waterhouse 1840: 172
1840
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