Geocapromys Chapman, 1901

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 : 800

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scientific name	Geocapromys Chapman, 1901
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Geocapromys Chapman, 1901 View in CoL . Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 14:314.

TYPE SPECIES: Capromys (Geocapromys) brownii Fischer, 1830 .

COMMENTS: Original use of the name was as a subgenus of Capromys . Included in Capromys by Mohr (1939:75), Varona (1974:67), Hall (1981:865), and Corbet and Hill (1991:203). However, considered a distinct genus by Miller (1929), Woods and Howland (1979:112), and Morgan (1985:30). Includes columbianus, pleistocenicus (see Hall, 1981:866), and megas (see Varona and Arredondo, 1979:12; Silva and Garrido, in press), which are known only from Holocene fossils from Cuba.