Chaetomys Gray 1843

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Erethizontidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1545-1550 : 1546

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11342517
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scientific name	Chaetomys Gray 1843
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Chaetomys Gray 1843 View in CoL

Chaetomys Gray 1843 View in CoL , List Specimens Mamm. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 123.

Type Species: Hystrix subspinosus Olfers 1818

Synonyms: Plectrochorerus Pictet 1843 .

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Chaetomys subspinosus ( Olfers 1818)

Discussion: Included in Erethizontidae by Corbet and Hill (1991), Emmons and Feer (1997), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Voss and Angermann (1997) but some authors (e.g., Miller and Gidley, 1918; Patterson and Wood, 1982; Stehlin and Schaub, 1951; Woods, 1993) have included in the Echimyidae .