IRMNG - Myocastor Kerr, 1792

IRMNG taxon details

Myocastor Kerr, 1792

IRMNG_ID

1015042 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1015042)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Myocastoridae Ameghino, 1902

Synonymised names

Mastonotus Wesmael, 1841 · unaccepted

Myocaster · unaccepted

Myopotamus Geoffroy, 1805 · unaccepted

Myopotamys Cuvier, 1829 · unaccepted

Palmipes Jarocki, 1821 · unaccepted

Potamys Desmarest, 1825 · unaccepted

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Species Myocastor coypus (Molina, 1782)

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Anim. Kingd.
page(s): 225 [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2022). Myocastor Kerr, 1792. Accessed at: https://irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1015042 on 2024-08-29

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-09-20 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

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original description Anim. Kingd.
page(s): 225 [details]

basis of record Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

basis of record SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 [details]

verified source for family WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

verified source for family Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. [details]

name verified source Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

current name source WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

current name source Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. [details]

extant flag source SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB [details]

habitat flag source as per family [details]

original description (of Myopotamys Cuvier, 1829) Dict. Sci. Nat., 59
page(s): 487 [details]

original description (of Palmipes Jarocki, 1821) Zool., 1
page(s): 151 [details]

original description (of Mastonotus Wesmael, 1841) Bull. Acad. Roy. Bruxelles, 8 (2)
page(s): 61 [details]

original description (of Myopotamus Geoffroy, 1805) Ann. Mus. H. N. Paris, 6
page(s): 82 [details]

From other sources

Type species as cited Mus coypus Molina, 1782. [details]

To WoRMS