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- 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...
- spiny Echimyidae: Clyomys, Euryzygomatomys, and Trinomys. Members of this echimyid subfamily all share an origin in the eastern part of Brazil, close to the...
- guinea pigs, maras, and capybaras Agoutis and acouchis Pacas Degus Most Echimyids, including the nutria, hutias, and Atlantic bamboo rat Springhares The...
- Nazareth F. (1996). "The Simultaneous Diversification of South American Echimyid Rodents (Hystricognathi) Based on Complete Cytochrome b Sequences". Molecular...