Dasyprocta Illiger, 1811

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

GENUS

Published in

Prodr. Syst. Mamm. Avium. p.93

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. Neave, S. A. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
4. Neave, S. A. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
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.
12. as per family