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Taxon: Family Hydrochoeridae Gray, 1825 (mammal)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

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

Subsequent positions

Cavioidea (Superfamily) Fischer de Waldheim, 1817

Original entries

Questionably †*Anatochoerinae* (Subfamily) Mones & Vucetich, 1991
Questionably †*Cardiatheriinae* (Subfamily) Kraglievich, 1930
Questionably *Hydrochoerinae* (Subfamily) Gray, 1825
Questionably †*Porcellusignum* (Genus) Casamiquela, 1982

Subsequent entries

Hydrochoerus (Genus) Brisson, 1762

Current position

Cavioidea (Superfamily) Fischer de Waldheim, 1817

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 201.

Historical positions

*Cavioidea* (Superfamily) Fischer de Waldheim, 1817	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 201.
*Cavioidea* (Superfamily) Fischer de Waldheim, 1817	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 638.
*Cavioidea* (Superfamily) Fischer de Waldheim, 1817	Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1052; 1050.
*Cavioidea* (Superfamily) Fischer de Waldheim, 1817	Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1974: 594.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	1g;2s; †15g
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[1g;2s; †15g]
1997	M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell	[1g; †15g]
1982	A.F. DeBlase	1g;2s

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