Aconaemys Ameghino 1891

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Octodontidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1570-1573 : 1571

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scientific name	Aconaemys Ameghino 1891
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Aconaemys Ameghino 1891 , Rev. Argent. Hist. Nat., 1: 245.

Type Species: Schizodon fuscus Waterhouse 1842

Species and subspecies: 3 species:

Species Aconaemys fuscus (Waterhouse 1841)

Species Aconaemys porteri Thomas 1917

Species Aconaemys sagei Pearson 1984

Discussion: Reig (1986:408) noted that Aconaemys is not separable from the Pliocene/Pleistocene form Pithanotomys Ameghino, 1887 at the generic level. If indeed the two are not separable, Pithanotomys would have priority as a name over Aconaemys . McKenna and Bell (1997) included in Pithanotomys . Aconaemys appears to by paraphyletic to Spalacopus (Gallardo and Kirsch, 2000; Honeycutt et al., 2003).