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Monotypic taxon: Genus Scapteromys Waterhouse, 1837 - water rat (mammal)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation (Waterhouse, 1837) Fitzinger, 1867
Original name Waterhouse, 1837:20.
Subsequent rank 1867. Fitzinger, 1867: 79-80.

Types

Type ofScapteromyini (Tribe) Massoia, 1979
TypeScapteromys tumidus Waterhouse, 1837

Synonyms

Accepted nameBibimys (Genus) Massoia, 1979 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
Accepted nameKunsia (Genus) Hershkovitz, 1966 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991

Vernacular Names (English)

Full namewater rat
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