- Caviinae
Taxobox
name = Caviinae
fossil_range = LateMiocene - Recent
image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Cavia porcellus "
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Mammal ia
ordo =Rodent ia
familia =Caviidae
subfamilia = Caviinae
subfamilia_authority = Fischer de Waldheim, 1817
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = †"Neoprocavia "
†"Allocavia "
†"Palaeocavia "
†"Neocavia "
†"Dolicavia "
†"Macrocavia "
†"Caviops "
†"Pascualia "
"Galea"
"Microcavia "
"Cavia "Caviinae is a subfamily uniting all living members of the family
Caviidae with the exception of the maras,capybara s andKerodon . The subfamily traditionally contained theguinea pig -like forms along with the cursorially (running) adapted "Kerodon ". Molecular results suggest that the Caviinae as so defined would beparaphyletic and that "Kerodon" is more closely related tomara s andcapybara s than to other caviines (Rowe and Honeycutt, 2002). This led Woods and Kilpatrick (2005) to unite "Kerodon" and capybaras into the subfamily Hydrochoerinae within the Caviidae. These studies also suggest that "Microcavia " and "Cavia " are more closely related to one another than either is to "Galea".Genera and species
*Subfamily Caviinae
**†"Neoprocavia "
**†"Allocavia "
**†"Palaeocavia "
**†"Neocavia "
**†"Dolicavia "
**†"Macrocavia "
**†"Caviops "
**†"Pascualia "
**"Galea" - yellow-toothed cavies
***"Galea flavidens " - Brandt's Yellow-toothed Cavy (may be an invalid species)
***"Galea monasteriensis "
***"Galea musteloides " - Common Yellow-toothed Cavy
***"Galea spixii " - Spix's Yellow-toothed Cavy
**"Microcavia " - mountain cavies
***"Microcavia australis " - Southern Mountain Cavy
***"Microcavia niata " - Andean Mountain Cavy
***"Microcavia shiptoni " - Shipton's Mountain Cavy
**"Cavia " - guinea pigs
***"Cavia aperea " - Brazilian Guinea Pig
***"Cavia fulgida " - Shiny Guinea Pig
***"Cavia intermedia " - Intermediate Guinea Pig
***"Cavia magna " - Greater Guinea Pig
***"Cavia porcellus " - Domestic Guinea Pig
***"Cavia tschudii " - Montane Guinea PigReferences
*Duff, A. and A. Lawson. 2004. Mammals of the World A Checklist. New Haven, Yale University Press.
*McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. "Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level." Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8
*Rowe, D. L. and R. L. Honeycutt. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships, ecological correlates, and molecular evolution within the Cavioidea (Mammalia, Rodentia). Molecular Biology and Evolution, 19:263-277.
*Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Infraorder Hystricognathi. Pp 1538-1600 in Mammal Species of the World A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds.). Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press.
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