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Taxon: Subfamily Heteropsomyinae Anthony, 1917 (mammal)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Rodentia - (Family) Echimyidae

Subsequent positions

Echimyidae (Family) Gray, 1825

Original entries

Questionably †*Acarechimys* (Genus) Patterson, 1965
Questionably †*Chasichimys* (Genus) Pascual, 1967
Questionably *Lonchothrix* (Genus) Thomas, 1920
Questionably †*Palaeoechimys* (Genus) Spillmann, 1949
Questionably †*Pampamys* (Genus) Verzi, Vucetich & Montalvo, 1995
Questionably †*Pattersomys* (Genus) Pascual, 1967
Questionably *Puertoricomys* (Genus) Woods, 1989
Questionably †*Sallamys* (Genus) Hoffstetter & Lavocat, 1970

Subsequent entries

*Boromys* (Genus) Miller, 1916
*Brotomys* (Genus) Miller, 1916
*Carterodon* (Genus) Waterhouse, 1848
*Clyomys* (Genus) Thomas, 1916
†*Eumysops* (Genus) Ameghino, 1888
*Euryzygomatomys* (Genus) Goeldi, 1901
*Heteropsomys* (Genus) Anthony, 1916
*Hoplomys* (Genus) Allen, 1908
*Mesomys* (Genus) Wagner, 1845
*Proechimys* (Genus) Allen, 1899
†*Protacaremys* (Genus) Ameghino, 1902
†*Protadelphomys* (Genus) Ameghino, 1902
*Thrichomys* (Genus) Trouessart, 1881

Current position

Echimyidae (Family) Gray, 1825

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 205.

Historical positions

*Echimyidae* (Family) Gray, 1825	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 205.
*Echimyidae* (Family) Gray, 1825	Ref: C.A. Woods, 1993: 799.

Number of Subtaxa

2026	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	9g;46s; ‡4g;7s; †9g
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[9g;46s; ‡4g;7s; †9g]
1997	M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell	[8g; ‡1g; †12g]
1993	C.A. Woods	[; ‡4g;7s]

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Last updated: 28 Aug 2026