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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Geocapromys Chapman 1901 View in CoL , 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.

References

Chapman, F. M. 1901. A revision of the genus Capromys. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 14: 313 - 323, 2 pls.

Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1991. A world list of mammalian species. Third ed. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 243 pp.

Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.

Miller, G. S., Jr. 1929. The characters of the genus Geocapromys Chapman. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 82 (4): 1 - 3, 1 pl.

Mohr, E. 1939. Die Baum- und Ferkelratten- Gattungen Capromys Desmarest (sens. ampl.) und Plagiodontia Cuvier. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Museum und Institut (Hamburg), 48: 48 - 118.

Morgan, G. S. 1985. Taxonomic status and relationships of the Swan Island hutia, Geocapromys thoracatus (Mammalia: Rodentia: Capromyidae), and the zoogeography of the Swan Islands vertebrate fauna. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 98 (1): 29 - 46.

Varona, L. S. 1974. Catalogo de los mamiferos vivientes y extinguidos de las Antillas. Instituto de Zoologia, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba (Havana), 139 pp.

Woods, C. A., and E. B. Howland. 1979. Adaptive radiation of capromyid rodents. Journal of Mammalogy, 60: 95 - 116.