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Hystricognathi  Brandt, 1855
Taxonomic Serial No.: 552299

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Infraorder  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): hystricognath rodents [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2023   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                               OrderRodentia Bowdich, 1821 – esquilo, preá, rato, roedor, rongeurs, rodents  
                                  SuborderHystricomorpha Brandt, 1855  
                                     InfraorderHystricognathi Brandt, 1855 – hystricognath rodents  
    Direct Children:  
                                        FamilyAbrocomidae Miller and Gidley, 1918 – chinchilla rats, Inca rats 
                                        FamilyBathyergidae Waterhouse, 1841 – African mole-rats 
                                        FamilyCaviidae Fischer de Waldheim, 1817 – cavies, capybaras, rock cavies, maras 
                                        FamilyChinchillidae Bennett, 1833 – viscachas, chinchillas 
                                        FamilyCtenomyidae Lesson, 1842 – tuco-tucos 
                                        FamilyCuniculidae Miller and Gidley, 1918 – pacas 
                                        FamilyDasyproctidae Bonaparte, 1838 – agoutis, acouchys 
                                        FamilyDinomyidae Peters, 1873 – pacarana 
                                        FamilyEchimyidae Gray, 1825 – hutias, South American spiny-rats, coypu 
                                        FamilyErethizontidae Bonaparte, 1845 – New World porcupines 
                                        FamilyHeptaxodontidae Anthony, 1917  
                                        FamilyHeterocephalidae Landry, 1957 – Naked Mole-rat 
                                        FamilyHystricidae Fischer de Waldheim, 1817 – Old World porcupines 
                                        FamilyOctodontidae Waterhouse, 1840 – viscacha rats, degus, rock rats, coruro 
                                        FamilyPetromuridae Tullberg, 1899 – noki 
                                        FamilyThryonomyidae Pocock, 1922 – cane rats 
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Alfred L. Gardner   
  Notes: Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA   
  Reference for: Hystricognathi    
       
  Expert: Charles A. Woods   
  Notes: Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-2035   
  Reference for: Hystricognathi    
       
  Other Source(s):    
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  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Carleton, Michael D., and Guy G. Musser / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.   
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title: Order Rodentia   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2   
  Page(s): 745-752   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8221-4   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Hystricognathi   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): D'Elía, Guillermo, Pierre-Henri Fabre, and Enrique P. Lessa   
  Publication Date: 2019   
  Article/Chapter Title: Rodent systematics in an age of discovery: recent advances and prospects   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Journal of Mammalogy, vol. 100, no. 3   
  Page(s): 852-871   
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  Publication Place:    
  ISBN/ISSN: 1545-1542   
  Notes: doi: 10.1093/jmammal/gyy179   
  Reference for: Hystricognathi   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): McKenna, Malcolm C., and Susan K. Bell   
  Publication Date: 1997   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Classification of mammals above the species level   
  Page(s): 631   
  Publisher: Columbia University Press   
  Publication Place: New York, New York, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-231-11012-X   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Hystricognathi   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.   
  Publication Date: 1993   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing   
  Page(s): xviii + 1207   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-217-9   
  Notes: Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing   
  Reference for: Hystricognathi   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Woods, Charles A., and C. William Kilpatrick / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.   
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title: Infraorder Hystricognathi Brandt, 1855   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2   
  Page(s): 1538-1600   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8221-4   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Hystricognathi   
       

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