Chaetomyinae Thomas, 1897

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 : 789

Subfamily Chaetomyinae Thomas, 1897 . Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1896:1026 [1897].

SYNONYMS: Cercolabidae .

COMMENTS: Originally in Erethizontidae , but removed by Patterson and Wood (1982:394) because this form retains the deciduous premolars (an echimyid derived character) unlike all known erethizontids.