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Geocapromys Chapman, 1901. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 14:314. COMMENT: Included in Capromys by Mohr, 1939, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Hamburg, 48:75, Varona, 1974:67, and Hall, 1981:865. However, considered a distinct genus by Woods and Howland, 1979, J. Mammal., 60: 112, and Miller, 1929, Smithson. Mise. Coll., 82(4):1 —3. GSM considers Geocapromys a distinct genus. Includes G. columbianus and G. pleistocenicus, known only from fossils, probably Holocene, from Cuba; see Hall, 1981:866. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410024002000000 as Geocapromys. 5301410024002002001 for G. columbianus.

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 580, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039