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Family Myocastoridae Ameghino, 1904. Anales Soc. Cient. Argentina, 56-58:103. COMMENTS: Included in Capromyidae by Hall (1981:871), Corbet and Hill (1991:203), and others, but see Woods and Howland (1979), and Woods (1982) for why capromyids and myocastorids are distinct.

Published as part of Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, pp. 771-806 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 805, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083