Tympanoctomys Yepes, 1941

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 : 789

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7353083
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7279345
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scientific name	Tympanoctomys Yepes, 1941
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Tympanoctomys Yepes, 1941 View in CoL . Rev. Inst. Bact., 9, 1940 [1941]:569.

TYPE SPECIES: Octomys barrerae Lawrence, 1941 .

COMMENTS: Widely considered a synonym of Octomys (see Reig, 1986:408; Corbet and Hill, 1991:204), but Cabrera (1961:516), and Redford and Eisenberg (1992) considered it a separate genus based on very enlarged tympanic bullae.