Hystricognathi

HystricognathiBrandt, 1855

Accepted name, Mammal Species of the World 2005

"Originally used as a tribe (Tribus) by Tullberg under his Order Glires, Suborder Simplicidentati, the first time this natural group was united together without various hystricomorphous forms. Includes: Hystricidae, Thryonomyoidea, Bathyergoidea, ""Caviomorpha"", and the Eocene-Oligocene Franimorpha. See Tullberg (1899:69-71) and Wood (1985:478-495) for definitions of hystricognath characters and lists of taxa. The Ctenodactylidae have been identified as the sister taxon of the Hystricognathi from analyses of molecular data (Adkins et al., 2003; Huchon et al., 2000) and Huchon et al. (2000) suggested that the two taxa be recognized as the Ctenohystricha. The name Ctenohystricha is predated by Entodacrya Landry, 1999. Woods (1993) suggested that the term ""Caviomorpha"" was inappropriate since it was unlikely that all New World forms were part of a single radiation, however, molecular data (Huchon and Douzery, 2001; Nedbal et al., 1994) have consistently found that the Caviomorpha form a mon... [truncated]"

• Wilson, D and Reeder, D. (eds.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed. -- 2142 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press.