Dasyprocta
Appearance

Taxonavigation
[edit]Familia: Dasyproctidae
Genus: Dasyprocta
Species (13):
D. azarae –
D. coibae –
D. croconota –
D. fuliginosa –
D. guamara –
D. iacki –
D. kalinowskii –
D. leporina –
D. mexicana –
D. prymnolopha –
D. punctata –
D. ruatanica –
D. variegata
Name
[edit]Dasyprocta Illiger, 1811: 93 [conserved name]
- Type species: Mus aguti Linnaeus, 1766, by subsequent designation by Thomas (1903).
- Gender: feminine.
- Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 91 (1926: 1) and Direction 24 (1955: 223).
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Illiger, J.K.W. 1811. Prodromus systematis mammalium et avium additis terminis zoographicis utriusque classis, eorumque versione germanica. C. Salfield: Berolini. xviii + 302 pp. BHL Reference page.
- International Commisision on Zoological Nomenclature. 1926. Opinion 91. Thirty-five generic names of Mammals placed on the Official List of Generic Names. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 73(4): 1–2. BHL Reference page.
- International Commisision on Zoological Nomenclature 1955. Direction 24. Completion of the entries relating to the names of certain genera in the class Mammalia made on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology in the period up to the end of 1936. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1C: 219–246. BHL Reference page.
Vernacular names
[edit]- беларуская: Агуці
- brezhoneg: Agouti
- català: Agutí
- Deutsch: Agutis
- English: Common agouti
- Esperanto: Agutio
- español: Agutíes
- eesti: Aguuti
- français: Dasyprocta
- Avañe'ẽ: Akuti
- hrvatski: Aguti
- magyar: Agutik
- Ido: Agutio
- italiano: Aguti
- ქართული: აგუტი
- қазақша: Агути
- 한국어: 아구티
- lietuvių: Tikrieji agučiai
- Nederlands: Agoeti's
- polski: Aguti
- português: Cutia
- Runa Simi: Chiwayru
- русский: Агути
- svenska: Agutier
- Türkçe: Aguti
- українська: Агуті