TY - JOUR A1 - Pocock, Reginald Innes T1 - On the external characters of some hystricomorph rodents T2 - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London N2 - The classifications of the Hystricomorpha in English text-books of Zoology are based upon the one proposed by Alston in 1876 (P.Z.S. 1876, pp. 90-97), which was itself an amplification and in some particulars a modification of the arrangement suggested by Waterhouse in 1848. Alston added to the group the family Dinomyidae, which, following Peters, he placed between the Dasyproctidae and Caviidae; and the Otenodactylinae, which he ranked as a subfamily of Octodontidae. He also transferred Petromys from the Echymyina (Echinomyinae), where it was placed by Waterhouse, to the Octodontinae. ... Y1 - 2009 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12610 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1133191 SN - 0370-2774 N1 - Signatur: 8 26.108 = An index to the artists HB 42 : K 190 N1 - Reginald Innes Pocock (* 4. März 1863 in Clifton, Bristol; † 9. August 1947 in London) VL - 25 SP - 365 EP - 427 PB - Zoological Society of London CY - London ER -