Concise hierarchy

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

Subsequent positions

Octodontoidea (Superfamily) Waterhouse, 1839

Original entries

Questionably †Adelphomyinae (Subfamily) Patterson & Pascual, 1968
Questionably Dactylomyinae (Subfamily) Tate, 1935
Questionably †Maruchito (Genus) Vucetich, Mazzoni & Pardiñas, 1993
Questionably Myocastorinae (Subfamily) Ameghino, 1902
Questionably †Paulacoutomys (Genus) Vucetich, de Souza Cunha & Ferraz de Alvarenga, 1993
Questionably †Willidewu (Genus) Vucetich & Verzi, 1991

Subsequent entries

Echimyinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1825
Heteropsomyinae (Subfamily) Anthony, 1917

Current position

Octodontoidea (Superfamily) Waterhouse, 1839

Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27).

Alternative positions

Hystricognathi (Suborder) Tullberg, 1899	Ref: C.A. Woods, 1993: 789.
Hystricognathi (Infraorder) Tullberg, 1899	Ref: D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2011: 58.
Rodentia (Order) Bowdich, 1821	Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 205.

Historical positions

Octodontoidea (Superfamily) Waterhouse, 1839	Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27).
Hystricognathi (Infraorder) Tullberg, 1899	Ref: D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2011: 58.
Octodontoidea (Superfamily) Waterhouse, 1839	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 205.
Hystricognathi (Suborder) Tullberg, 1899	Ref: C.A. Woods, 1993: 789; 8.
Rodentia (Order) Bowdich, 1821	Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 205.
Octodontoidea (Superfamily) Waterhouse, 1839	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 638.
Octodontoidea (Superfamily) Waterhouse, 1839	Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1053-1054; 1051.
Octodontoidea (Superfamily) Waterhouse, 1839	Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1974: 593.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	21g;84s; ‡4g;7s; †17g;1s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 19 Feb 2022	[20g;84s; ‡4g; †17g]
2011	D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder: 58	21g;92s
1997	M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell	[16g; ‡1g; †29g]
1993	C.A. Woods	20[16]g;78[71]s; ‡[4g;7s]
1991	G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill	[14g];~45[63]s
1982	A.F. DeBlase	2sf;14g;43s