Thrichomys | |
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Thrichomys apereoides | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Echimyidae |
Subfamily: | Echimyinae |
Tribe: | Myocastorini |
Genus: | Thrichomys Trouessart, 1880 |
Type species | |
Nelomys apereoides Lund, 1839 | |
Species | |
Thrichomys apereoides | |
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Thrichomys is a genus of South American rodents in the family Echimyidae. [1] It contains at least five species, found in Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. [2] [3] They are as follows:
The closest relatives of the genus Thrichomys are two clades consisting of pairs of Myocastorini genera: Callistomys (the painted tree-rat) and Myocastor (the coypu or nutria) in one clade, and Hoplomys (the armored rat) and Proechimys in the other.
Genus-level cladogram of the Myocastorini |
The cladogram has been reconstructed from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA characters. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] |
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