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Dasyproctidae
Taxonomy
Dasyproctidae was named by Gray (1825). It is extant. Its type is Dasyprocta.
It was assigned to Glires by Bonaparte (1850); to Simplicidentata by Flower and Lydekker (1891); to Hystricomorpha by Gadow (1898); to Myomorpha by Hay (1902); to Chinchilloidea by Wood (1958), Wood and Patterson (1959) and Carroll (1988); to Rodentia by Nowak (1991); to Hystricognathi by Kramarz et al. (2010); and to Cavioidea by Lavocat (1976), Patterson and Wood (1982), Nowak (1999), Huchon and Douzery (2001), Vucetich et al. (2010) and Upham and Patterson (2015).
It was assigned to Glires by Bonaparte (1850); to Simplicidentata by Flower and Lydekker (1891); to Hystricomorpha by Gadow (1898); to Myomorpha by Hay (1902); to Chinchilloidea by Wood (1958), Wood and Patterson (1959) and Carroll (1988); to Rodentia by Nowak (1991); to Hystricognathi by Kramarz et al. (2010); and to Cavioidea by Lavocat (1976), Patterson and Wood (1982), Nowak (1999), Huchon and Douzery (2001), Vucetich et al. (2010) and Upham and Patterson (2015).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1825 | Dasyproctidae Gray |
| 1850 | Dasyproctidae Bonaparte p. 1 |
| 1891 | Dasyproctidae Flower and Lydekker p. 91 |
| 1898 | Dasyproctidae Gadow p. 43 |
| 1902 | Dasyproctidae Hay p. 734 |
| 1958 | Dasyproctidae Wood p. 172 |
| 1959 | Dasyproctidae Wood and Patterson |
| 1976 | Dasyproctidae Lavocat |
| 1982 | Dasyproctidae Patterson and Wood |
| 1988 | Dasyproctidae Carroll |
| 1991 | Dasyproctidae Nowak |
| 1999 | Dasyproctidae Nowak |
| 2001 | Dasyproctidae Huchon and Douzery p. 247 |
| 2010 | Dasyproctidae Kramarz et al. |
| 2010 | Dasyproctidae Vucetich et al. |
| 2015 | Dasyproctidae Upham and Patterson |
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Fm. Dasyproctidae Gray 1825
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G. †Alloiomys Vucetich 1977
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†Alloiomys friasensis Kraglievich 1930
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Invalid names: Alloiomys pattersoni Vucetich 1979 [synonym]
G. Coelogenus Cuvier 1807
G. Dasyprocta Illiger 1811 [agouti]
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Dasyprocta leporina Linnaeus 1758 [red-rumped agouti]
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Invalid names: Mus aguti Linnaeus 1766 [synonym]
Dasyprocta punctata Gray 1842 [Central American agouti]
G. Myoprocta Thomas 1903 [acouchi]
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Myoprocta acouchy Erxleben 1777 [red acouchi]
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Invalid names: Dasyprocta exilis Wagler 1831 [synonym], Dasyprocta leptura Wagner 1844 [synonym]
Myoprocta milleri Allen 1913
Myoprocta pratti Pocock 1913 [green acouchi]
Myoprocta pratti limanus Thomas 1920
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available