Capromyidae


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Noun1.Capromyidae - coypus
family Capromyidae
mammal family - a family of mammals
Hystricomorpha, suborder Hystricomorpha - an order of rodents including: porcupines; guinea pigs; chinchillas; etc.
genus Myocastor, Myocastor - a genus of Capromyidae
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Many other animals, such as large rodents called hutias (Capromyidae) that still survive on some Caribbean islands today, probably colonised the region in the same way.
Primates of The Caribbean
Cricetinae, Muridae, Spalacidae, Calomyscidae, Capromyidae, Hystricidae, Castoridae.
Genetic Differentiation and Relationship between Two Karyotype Forms of Nannospalax ehrenbergi (Rodentia: Spalacidae) in Egypt
Five families were united in Octodontoidea, with Abrocomidae (chinchilla rats) sister to two family dyads: Octodontidae (degus and viscacha rats) + Ctenomyidae (tuco-tucos) and Echimyidae (spiny rats, tree rats, and the nutria) + Capromyidae (hutias).
Ecological diversification and biogeography in the neogene: evolution of a major lineage of American and Caribbean rodents (Caviomorpha, Octodontoidea)

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