- or spines, that
presumably serve for
protection from predators. Many
echimyids can
break off
their tails when attacked. This
action may
confuse predators...
-
Myocastorini is a
tribe of
echimyid rodents,
proposed in 2017, and
containing the five
extant genera Callistomys, Hoplomys, Myocastor, Proechimys, and...
-
cricetid of
southeastern North America It may also
refer to the
semiaquatic echimyid known as the coypu.
Other a
series of
famous Top Fuel
dragsters created...
- Bristle-spined porcupine,
Chaetomys subspinosus (sometimes
considered an
echimyid)
Superfamily Cavioidea Family Hydrochaeridae:
capybara Family Caviidae:...
- A. S. and L. O. Salles. 2004.
Relationships among extant and
fossil echimyids.
Zoological Journal of the
Linnean Society, 142:445-477. Emmons, L.H....
- diets, they
expanded their sizes to encomp**** a
range from rat-sized
echimyids to the bison-sized Phoberomys.
Their ecologies included burrowing gopher-like...
-
arrival of
ancestors of the
Antillean capromyids and
echimyids,
concluding that an
ancient echimyid must have
arrived on the
Greater Antilles from South...
-
Echimyini is a
tribe of
echimyid rodents,
proposed in 2016, and
containing 13
extant genera: all of the tree rats Echimys, Phyllomys, Makalata, Pattonomys...
-
guinea pigs, maras, and
capybaras Agoutis and
acouchis Pacas Degus Most
Echimyids,
including the nutria, hutias, and
Atlantic bamboo rat
Springhares The...
-
spiny Echimyidae: Clyomys, Euryzygomatomys, and Trinomys.
Members of this
echimyid subfamily all
share an
origin in the
eastern part of Brazil,
close to the...
