Agouti Lacépède, 1799

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 : 783

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Agouti Lacépède, 1799 . Tabi. Mamm., p. 9.

TYPE SPECIES: Mus paca Linnaeus, 1766 .

SYNONYMS: Coelogenys, Cuniculus, Paca, Stictomys .

COMMENTS: See Handley (1976:55) and Husson (1978:47). Cuniculus Brisson, 1762 is unavailable because Brisson's (1762) work was not consistently binominal (see Hopwood, 1947; International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1955:197).