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Abrocomidae (chinchilla rat)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Abrocomidae

Taxonomy
Abrocomidae was named by Miller and Gidley (1918). It is extant.

It was assigned to Rodentia by Nowak (1991); and to Octodontoidea by Wood (1958), Carroll (1988), Nowak (1999), Huchon and Douzery (2001) and Upham and Patterson (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1918Abrocomidae Miller and Gidley
1958Abrocomidae Wood p. 172
1988Abrocomidae Carroll
1991Abrocomidae Nowak
1999Abrocomidae Nowak
2001Abrocomidae Huchon and Douzery p. 246
2015Abrocomidae Upham and Patterson

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—EuarchontogliresMurphy et al. 2001
—GliriformesWyss and Meng 1996
—Glires()
—Simplicidentata()
orderRodentiaBowdich 1821
—CtenohystricaHuchon et al. 2000
infraorderHystricognathi(Tullberg 1899)
—Caviomorpha(Wood and Patterson 1955)
superfamilyOctodontoideaWaterhouse 1839
familyAbrocomidaeMiller and Gidley 1918
familyAbrocomidaeMiller and Gidley 1918

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Fm. Abrocomidae Miller and Gidley 1918 [chinchilla rat]
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G. †Abrocoma Waterhouse 1837
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†Abrocoma antiqua Rovereto 1914
G. †Ameghinomys Verzi et al. 2017
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†Ameghinomys constans Ameghino 1887
G. †Protabrocoma Kraglievich 1927
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†Protabrocoma antiqua Rovereto 1914
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available