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Taxon: Suborder Hystricomorpha Brandt, 1855 (mammal)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  (Brandt, 1855) Simpson, 1945
Original name:  Brandt, 1855:235, 294.
Subsequent rank:  Simpson, 1945:93.

Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Hystricoidea (Superfamily) Fischer de Waldheim, 1817

Variants

Current rank: Hystricomorpha (Infraorder) Brandt, 1855 Ref: M.J. Benton, 2015: 445. [inferred]
Former rank: Hystricomorpha (Infraorder) Brandt, 1855 Ref: D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2011: 58. [inferred]

Synonyms

Accepted name: Ctenohystrica ([unranked]) Ref: PBDB: 1 Dec 2017.
Accepted name: Hystricognatha (Suborder) Woods, 1976 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
Synonymous name: Hystricognathi (Suborder) Tullberg, 1899
Including: Hystricognatha (Suborder) Woods, 1976 Ref: D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2011: 58. [inferred]
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