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Monotypic taxon: Genus Rhyncholestes Osgood, 1924 - Chilean "shrew" opossums (mammal)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Paucituberculata - (Family) Caenolestidae

Original position

Questionably Caenolestinae (Subfamily) Trouessart, 1898

Current position

Caenolestidae (Family) Trouessart, 1898

Ref: Abello et al., 2021: 8; Abello et al., 2021: fig. 4A

Alternative positions

Caenolestinae (Subfamily) Trouessart, 1898

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 74.

Historical positions

*Caenolestidae* (Family) Trouessart, 1898	Ref: A.L. Gardner, 2005: 19.
*Caenolestinae* (Subfamily) Trouessart, 1898	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 74.
*Caenolestidae* (Family) Trouessart, 1898	Ref: A.L. Gardner, 1993: 25.
*Caenolestidae* (Family) Trouessart, 1898	Ref: R.M. Nowak, 1991: 27.
*Caenolestidae* (Family) Trouessart, 1898	Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 12.
*Caenolestidae* (Family) Trouessart, 1898	Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1019.
*Caenolestidae* (Family) Trouessart, 1898	Ref: W. Fiedler et al., 1973: 611.

Number of Subtaxa

2026	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	1s;2ss
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[1s;2ss]
2005	A.L. Gardner	[1s;2ss]
1993	A.L. Gardner	[1s]
1991	G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill	[2s]
1991	R.M. Nowak	2s
1973	W. Fiedler et al.	1s

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