Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi Author Charles A. Woods text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 771 806 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353083 1-56098-217-9 7353083 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.