Subfamily Echimyinae Gray 1825 (spiny rat)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Echimyidae
Parent taxon: Echimyidae according to G. E. Iack-Ximenes et al. 2005
See also Patterson and Pascual 1968
Sister taxa: Adelphomyinae, Carterodon, Chaetomyinae, Clyomys, Dactylomyinae, Dactylomys, Dicolpomys, Diplomys, Eumysopinae, Eumysops, Euryzygomatomys, Gaimanomys, Haplostropha, Heteropsomyinae, Hexolobodon, Hoplomys, Isolobodon, Isothrix, Lonchothrix, Maruchito, Mesomys, Myocastor, Pampamys, Paradelphomys, Proatherura, Quebradahondomys, Reigechimys, Rhizoplagiodontia, Theridomysops, Thrichomys, Trinomys
Subtaxa: Callistomys Echimys Makalata Phyllomys
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
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