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Dolichotis (mara)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Caviidae

Taxonomy
Dolichotis was named by Desmarest (1820). It is extant.

It was assigned to Dasyporcina by Gray (1825); and to Caviidae by Rovereto (1914), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Prado et al. (1998).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1820Dolichotis Desmarest
1825Dolichotis Gray p. 341
1914Dolichotis Rovereto p. 58
1997Dolichotis McKenna and Bell
1998Dolichotis Prado et al. p. 795

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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
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
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)
superfamilyCavioideaFischer de Waldheim 1817
familyCaviidae
genusDolichotisDesmarest 1820

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.

G. Dolichotis Desmarest 1820 [mara]
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Dolichotis andina Rovereto 1914
Dolichotis intermedia Ameghino 1889
Dolichotis minuscula Ameghino 1908
Dolichotis patagonum Zimmermann 1780 [Patagonian mara]
Dolichotis platycephala Ameghino 1889
Dolichotis salinicola Burmeister 1876
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available