Capromyidae Smith, 1842

Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 771-806 : 800

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7279572
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scientific name	Capromyidae Smith, 1842
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Family Capromyidae Smith, 1842 View in CoL . The Naturalist's Library (London), 15:308.

COMMENTS: Does not include Myocastor , and apparently represents an entirely intraCaribbean radiation ( Woods and Howland, 1979; Woods 1989a, b); also see comments under Myocastoridae . Woods (1982:386-387) included West Indian Heteropsomyinae in this family, but here this group is assigned to the Echimyidae (see comments under Heteropsomyinae ). Varona (1974) and Corbet and Hill (1991:203) classified most of the following species in either of two genera ( Capromys or Plagiodontia ), whereas Woods (1989a, b) separated them into several distinct subfamilies and genera.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Capromyidae