Concise hierarchy

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

Subsequent positions

Heteropsomyinae (Subfamily) Anthony, 1917

Current position

Heteropsomyinae (Subfamily) Anthony, 1917

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 206.

Alternative positions

Echimyidae (Family) Gray, 1825	Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 206.
Echimyinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1825	Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1974: 593.
Eumysopinae (Subfamily) Rusconi, 1935	Ref: C.A. Woods, 1993: 794.

Historical positions

Heteropsomyinae (Subfamily) Anthony, 1917	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 206.
Eumysopinae (Subfamily) Rusconi, 1935	Ref: C.A. Woods, 1993: 794.
Echimyidae (Family) Gray, 1825	Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 206.
Echimyidae (Family) Gray, 1825	Ref: K.C. Emerson, 1982: 411.
Echimyinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1825	Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1974: 593.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	1s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[1s]
1993	C.A. Woods	[1s]
1991	G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill	[1s]