Geocapromys Chapman 1901

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Capromyidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1593-1599 : 1594

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scientific name	Geocapromys Chapman 1901
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Geocapromys Chapman 1901 , Bull. Am. Mus . Nat. Hist., 14: 314.

Type Species: Capromys (Geocapromys) brownii Fischer 1830

Species and subspecies: 3 species:

Species Geocapromys brownii (Fischer 1830)

Species Geocapromys ingrahami (J. A. Allen 1891)

Species Geocapromys thoracatus (True 1888)

Discussion: Original use of the name was as a subgenus of Capromys . Included in Capromys by Mohr (1939:75), Varona (1974:67), Hall (1981:865), and Corbet and Hill (1991:203). Considered a distinct genus by Miller (1929), Woods and Howland (1979:112), and Morgan (1985:30). Includes columbianus, pleistocenicus (see Hall, 1981:866), and megas (see Varona and Arredondo, 1979), which are known only from Holocene fossils from Cuba.