Erethizontidae Bonaparte, 1845

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 : 775

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7279065
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scientific name	Erethizontidae Bonaparte, 1845
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Family Erethizontidae Bonaparte, 1845 View in CoL . Cat. Meth. Mamm. Europe, p. 5.

COMMENTS: Spelled Erithizontidae by Corbet and Hill (1980:189); but see comment under Erethizon . Extinct forms date to the Oligocene of South America. The genus Chaetomys is moved to Echimyidae based on its retention of the deciduous premolars and other dental features (see Patterson and Wood, 1982:394), although retained in Erethizontidae by Corbet and Hill (1991:200).