Relationships among extant and fossil echimyids (Rodentia: Hystricognathi)

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 445-477

  Carvalho, Guilherme A S ^a   Salles, Leandro O ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Caviomorpha; Echimyidae; Evolution; Palaeontology; Parsimony analysis; Phylogenetics; South America; Systematics; Tooth morphology

Indexed keywords

CARTERODON; CAVIOMORPHA; CLYOMYS; DACTYLOMYINAE; ECHIMYIDAE; ECHIMYINAE; ECHIMYS; EUMYSOPINAE; EURYZYGOMATOMYS; HOPLOMYS; HYSTRICOGNATHI; LONCHOTHRIX; MAKALATA; MESOMYS; MYOCASTOR; MYOCASTORINAE; PROECHIMYS; RODENTIA; TRINOMYS;

EID: 11244329023     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00150.x     Document Type: Article

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