RODENTIA: ECHIMYIDAE 645 



Genus APHAETREUS " Miller 

 1922. Aphaetreus Miller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 74, No. 3, p. 3, Oct. 16, 

 1922. (Type, Aphaetreus montanus Miller.) 



Aphaetreus montanus Millerf * 



1922. Aphaetreus montanus Miller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 74, No. 3, 

 p. 4, Oct. 16, 1922. 



Type Locality. — Large cave near St. Michel, Haiti. Range. — Known from 

 cave remains only. 



Subfamily myocastorinae 



Genus MYOCASTOR Kerr 



1792. Myocastor Kerr, The animal kingdom . . . , p. 225. (Type, Mus 



coypus Molina.) 

 1805. Myopotamus E\ Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, 



vol. 6, p. 82. (Type Myopotamus bonariensis E. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire.) 



Myocastor coypus bonariensis (E\ Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire)* 



1805. Myopotamus bonariensis E\ Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, Ann. Mus. Hist. 



Nat., Paris, vol. 6, p. 82. 

 1917. Myocastor coypus bonariensis Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 



vol. 20, p. 100, July 1917. 

 Type Locality. — Argentina. Range. — Feral coypus recorded from Louisiana 

 (Lovery, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ. No. 13, p. 248, Nov. 22, 

 1943), Ohio (Petrides and Leedy, Journ. Mamm., vol. 29, No. 2, p. 182, May 14, 

 1948), Montana (Jellison, Journ. Mamm., vol. 26, No. 4, p. 432, Feb. 12, 1946) , 

 Washington and western Oregon (Larrison, Murrelet, vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 3-9, 

 Apr. 22, 1943) and British Columbia (Holdom, Murrelet, vol. 25, No. 2, p. 30, 

 Sept. 19, 1944) . 



Family Echimyidae 



Subfamily echimyinae 

 Genus HOPLOMYS J. A. Allen 

 1908. Hoplomys J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 24, p. 649, 

 Oct. 13, 1908. (Type, Hoplomys truei J. A. Allen.) 



Hoplomys gymnurus goethalsi Goldmanf * 



1912. Hoplomys goethalsi Goldman, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 56, No. 36, 



p. 10, Feb. 19, 1912. 

 1920. Hoplomys gymnurus goethalsi Goldman, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., 



vol. 69, No. 5, p. 123, Apr. 24, 1920. 

 Type Locality. — Rio Indio, near Gatun, Canal Zone, Panama. Range. — Re- 

 corded also from Tacarcuna (Anthony, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 35, 

 p. 370, June 9, 1916) and Cana in Darien, Panama (Goldman, 1920, loc. cit.). 



00 Regarded as a subgenus of Plagiodontia by Mohr, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 48, 

 p. 88, May 1939. Regarded as a generic offshoot of subfamily Plagiodontinae by Tate, 

 Journ. Mamm., vol. 29, No. 2, p. 177, May 14, 1948. 



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