Name - Hydrochoerus Brisson 1762

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:83979 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Hydrochoerus

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Genus

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Comments on the proposed conservation of some mammal generic names first published in Brisson's (1762) Regnum Animale.
• Comments on the proposed conservation of some mammal generic names first published in Brisson's (1762) Regnum Animale.
• Opinion 1894. Regnum Animale..., Ed. 2 (M.J. Brisson, 1762): rejected for nomenclatural purposes, with the conservation of the mammalian generic names Philander (Marsupialia), Pteropus (Chiroptera), Glis, Cuniculus and Hydrochoerus (Rodentia), Meles, Lutra and Hyaena (Carnivora), Tapirus (Perissodactyla), Tragulus and Giraffa (Artiodactyla).
• Family Caviidae G. Fischer, 1817.
• New fossil remains of Quaternary capybaras (Rodentia: Caviomorpha: Caviidae) from the intertropical region of Brazil: morphology and taxonomy.

Search name in:

Sherborn Index Animalium

• Regnum animale, 1762 1762: 80. [Index Animalium Entry]

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