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Quemisia gravis Millerf * (the "quemi" of Oviedo) 



1929. Quemisia gravis Miller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 81, No. 9, p. 23, 

 Mar. 30, 1929. 



Type Locality. — Cave near Atalaye plantation, 4 miles east of St. Michel, Haiti. 

 Range. — Known only from remains found in caves and Indian deposits; but prob- 

 ably not yet extinct at beginning of Spanish occupation (see Miller, Smithsonian 

 Misc. Coll., vol. 82, No. 5, p. 13, December 1929) . 



Family Dasyproctidae 

 Subfamily cuniculinae (spotted cavies) 



Genus CUNICULUS 60 Brisson 



1762. Cuniculus Brisson, Regnum animale . . . , ed. 2, p. 13. (Type, by sub- 

 sequent designation, Paca Brisson — Mus paca Linnaeus. See Hollister, 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 26, p. 79, Mar 22, 1913.) 



1763. Cuniculus Gronovius, Zoophylacium Gronovianum, . . . , fasc. 1, p. 4. 

 (Type, not designated; included species are (14) =Mus aguti; (15) =Mus 

 paca; and (16)= Mus porcellus.) 



1799. Agouti Lacepede, Tableau des divisions, sous-divisions, ordres et genres 

 des mammiferes, p. 9 (published as supplement to Discours d'ouverture et 

 cloture du cours d'histoire naturelle ....). (Type, Agouti paca = Mus 

 paca Linnaeus.) 



Cuniculus paca virgatus (Bangs)* 



1884. Coelogcnys paca True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29), 



p. 600, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1902. Agouti paca virgatus Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 39, No. 2, 



p. 47, April 1902. 

 1913. Cuniculus paca virgatus Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 26, 



p. 79, Mar. 22, 1913. 

 Type Locality. — Divala, Chiriqui, Panama. Range. — From Canal Zone to 

 Chiriqui in western Panama and in western Costa Rica to San Geronimo; limits 

 of range unknown (Goodwin, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 87, p. 420, Dec. 

 31, 1946). 



Cuniculus paca nelsoni (Goldman) f * 



1913. Agouti paca nelsoni Goldman, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 60, No. 22, 



p. 9, Feb. 28, 1913. 

 1913. Cuniculus paca nelsoni Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 26, 



p. 79, Mar. 22, 1913. 



80 Brisson's "Regnum animale . . ." regarded as non-Linnacan and not consistently bino- 

 mial by Hopwood, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 117, pts. 2-3, p. 534, Oct. 30, 1947. See also 

 Hersbkovitz, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 62, p. 12, Mar. 17, 1949. 



According to Opinion 20 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 

 (Smithsonian Inst. Spec. Publ. 1938, pp. 48-50, July 1910), Gronow, 1763, is binary, though 

 not consistently binomial. Subsequently, in Opinion 89 (Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 73, 

 No. 3, p. 27, Dec. 16, 1925) the Commission made a ruling which in effect rejected all names 

 published as new in Gronow (Gronovius) , but left "them as available as of the dates when 

 they were later adopted by authors whose nomenclatorial practice is unquestioned by zool- 

 ogists." 



