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Myocastor
Sign in to saveMyocastor is a genus of rodent that contains the living nutria (or coypu), as well as several fossil species.
Species
Coypu
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderRodentia
- FamilyMyocastoridae
Myocastor es un género de roedores histricomorfos endémico de América del Sur. Posee una única especie viviente: Myocastor coypus, llamada comúnmente «coipo», «coipú», «nutria roedora», o de una manera más ambigua «nutria», la que habita en humedales del sur de América del Sur. También cuenta con una especie extinta: Myocastor perditus, encontrada en el sur de Bolivia.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 15
- Family
- Myocastoridae
- Collections
- UF, PLUNHM, YPM, CALPOLY
- Recorded in
- Bolivia, United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Myocastoridae
- Image
- Myocastor coypus 02.jpg
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- Category:Myocastor
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- Myocastor
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- genus
- taxon common name
- nutrija
- Commons category
- Myocastor coypus
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Taxonomy
- Fossil record
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Myocastor is a genus of rodent that contains the living nutria (or coypu), as well as several fossil species.
==Taxonomy== Due to similar cranial morphology, the nutria was once considered a close relative of the Caribbean hutias and placed together with them in the family Capromyidae. Later, it was more accepted to place it in its own family, the Myocastoridae. Recent molecular studies place them in the family Echimyidae, in the tribe Myocastorini.
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