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Taxon: Genus Kunsia Hershkovitz, 1966 - South American giant rats (mammal)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

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

Subsequent positions

Scapteromyini (Tribe) Massoia, 1979

Current position

Scapteromyini (Tribe) Massoia, 1979

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 149.

Alternative positions

*Hesperomyinae* (Subfamily) Murray, 1866	Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 160.
*Sigmodontinae* (Subfamily) Wagner, 1843	Ref: G.G. Musser & M.D. Carleton, 1993: 706.

Historical positions

*Scapteromyini* (Tribe) Massoia, 1979	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 149.
*Sigmodontinae* (Subfamily) Wagner, 1843	Ref: G.G. Musser & M.D. Carleton, 1993: 706.
*Hesperomyinae* (Subfamily) Murray, 1866	Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 160.

Number of Subtaxa

2025	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	2s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[2s]
1993	G.G. Musser & M.D. Carleton	[2s]
1991	G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill	[2s]

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