Dasyprocta Illiger, 1811

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

GENUS

Published in

Illiger, Johann K. W. 1811. Prodromus Systematis Mammalium et Avium: Additis Terminis Zoographicis Utriusque Classis, Eorumque Versione Germanica. Sumptibus C. Salfeld, Berolini.: i-xviii + 1-301.

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Chordata

class

Mammalia

order

Rodentia

family

Dasyproctidae

genus

Dasyprocta

Name

Synonyms

Chloromys Lesson, 1827

Chloromys Rafinesque, 1815

Cloromis Cuvier, 1812

Cutia Liais, 1872

Dasyporca Gray, 1825

Dasyprocla Lund, 1840

Mamdasyproctaus Herrera, 1899

Homonyms

Dasyprocta Illiger, 1811

Common names

Agoutis in language.

agouti in English

agoutis in language.

Bibliographic References

1. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 91 Thirty-five generic names of Mammals placed on the Official List of Generic Names.Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 73(4), 1 (1926)
2. McKenna, Malcolm C., and Susan K. Bell, 1997: null. Classification of mammals above the species level. 631.
3. Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006).
4. Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006).
5. Prod.
6. SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997
7. SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997
8. Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
9. Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
10. Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207.
11. Woods, Charles A., and C. William Kilpatrick / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: Infraorder Hystricognathi Brandt, 1855. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2. 1538-1600.
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