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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
Agoeti's in Dutch
Agouti in Breton
Agoutis in language.
Aguti in Italian
Agutier in Norwegian Bokmål
Agutio in Ido
Agutis in German
Agutí in Catalan–Valencian
Agutíes in Spanish
Aguuti in Estonian
Akuti in Guarani
Chiwayru in Quechua
Common agouti in English
Cutia in Portuguese
Cutias in Portuguese
Dasyprocta in French
Guaqueques in Spanish
Guatusas in Spanish
Tikrieji agučiai in Lithuanian
agouti in English
agoutis in English
agoutis in English
agoutis in English
agutik in Hungarian
Ñeques in Spanish
Агути in Russian
Агуті in Ukrainian
Агуці in Belarusian
აგუტი in Georgian
アグーチ属 in Japanese
刺豚鼠屬 in Chinese
아구티 in Korean

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. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  4. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  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., T. E. Lacher Jr., and R. A. Mittermeier, eds., 2016: null. Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 6: Lagomorphs and Rodents I. 987.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. as per family
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