affinities with a subfamily of spiny rats, the Euryzygomatomyinae. Within Capromyidae, the deepest split involves Plagiodontia with respect to other genera...

taxa recognized on molecular and traditional basis: the two families Capromyidae and Myocastoridae, the five subfamilies Echimyinae, Euryzygomatomyinae...

tuco-tucos Family Echimyidae: spiny rats Family Myocastoridae: nutrias Family Capromyidae: hutias Superfamily Chinchilloidea Family Chinchillidae: chinchillas...

monotypic taxon) Thryonomyidae (cane rats) Abrocomidae (chinchilla rats) Capromyidae (hutias) Caviidae (guinea pigs, wild cavies, and capybaras) Chinchillidae...

(Isolobodon portoricensis) is an extinct species of rodent in the family Capromyidae. It was found on Hispaniola (today the Dominican Republic and Haiti)...

are latest Pleistocene and the latest are from around 1600 CE. Within Capromyidae, the closest relatives of Capromys are the genera Mesocapromys and Mysateles...

Banana rat can refer to: A species of rodent from the family Capromyidae, indigenous to Cuba A rat species of the genus Melomys This disambiguation page...

Young, Richard P. (2015). "A new subspecies of hutia (Plagiodontia, Capromyidae, Rodentia) from southern Hispaniola". Zootaxa. 3957 (2): 201–214. doi:10...

family Echimyidae (Spiny rats), including Myocastoridae (Coypus) and Capromyidae (Hutias) Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia...

southern hutia (Mysateles meridionalis), species of rodent in the family Capromyidae. It is endemic to lowland moist forests on Isla de la Juventud in Cuba...