| 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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