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Cuniculus paca (lowland paca)
Taxonomy
Mus paca was named by Linnaeus (1766) [see ICZN Opinion 1894]. It is extant. It is the type species of Agouti.
It was recombined as Agouti paca by Lacépède (1799) and Hay (1902); it was recombined as Coelogenys paca by Giebel (1883); it was recombined as Cuniculus paca by International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1998) and Ríos-Uzeda et al. (2004).
It was recombined as Agouti paca by Lacépède (1799) and Hay (1902); it was recombined as Coelogenys paca by Giebel (1883); it was recombined as Cuniculus paca by International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1998) and Ríos-Uzeda et al. (2004).
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1766 | Mus paca Linnaeus |
1799 | Agouti paca Lacépède |
1883 | Coelogenys paca Giebel p. 512 |
1902 | Agouti paca Hay p. 734 |
1998 | Cuniculus paca International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature p. 64 |
2004 | Cuniculus paca Ríos-Uzeda et al. p. 109 |
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Cuniculus paca Linnaeus 1766 [lowland paca]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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References: Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009 |
Age range: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.77400 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (16 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Pleistocene - Holocene | Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) | Agouti paca (211822) | |
Pleistocene - Holocene | Brazil (Paraná) | Cuniculus paca (211843) | |
Middle Pleistocene | Brazil (Bahia) | Agouti paca (71295) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | Brazil (Piaui) | Agouti paca (71332 71334) Cuniculus paca (71331) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | Brazil (Goiás) | Agouti paca (211821) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Brazil (Minas Gerais) | Cuniculus paca (211801 212719) | |
Holocene | Brazil (Pará) | Cuniculus paca (211490) | |
Holocene | Venezuela (Guarico) | Agouti paca (21686) | |
Holocene | Brazil (Districto Agropecura) | Agouti paca (21687) | |
Holocene | Brazil (São Paulo) | Cuniculus paca (148397) | |
Holocene | Panama | Agouti paca (21691) | |
Holocene | Brazil (Sao Paulo) | Agouti paca (71269) | |
Holocene | Peru | Agouti paca (21689) |