After Mckenna & Bell, 1997, and MacPhee & Flemming, 2003
<==o †Heptaxodontidae Anthony, 1917 [taxonomic history] (antillienhutiat) |?- †Tetrastylomys Kraglievich, 1926; U.Mioc. SA. |?- †Pentastylomys Kraglievich, 1926; U.Mioc. SA. |?- †Quemisia gravis Miller, 1929; Pleist. Caribb. [Hispaniola] (Hispaniolan Giant Hutia, Quemi) [treated as capromyid by McKenna & Bell, 1997] |--o †Clidomyinae Woods, 1989 | |?- †Alterodon major (Anthony, 1920); Pleist. Caribb. [Jamaica] (nomen dubium, possibly synonymous with Clidomys osborni Anthony, 1920?) | `--o †Clidomys | |-- †C. osborni Anthony, 1920 [incl.? Speoxnus cundalli Anthony, 1920; Spirodontomys jamaicensis Anthony, 1920] (Larger Jamaican Giant Hutia) | `?- †C. parvus Anthony, 1920 [=? C. osborni Anthony, 1920] (Smaller Jamaica Giant Hutia) `--o †Heptaxodontinae Anthony, 1917 [incl. †Amblyrhizinae Schaub, 1951] |?- †Xaymaca fulvopulvis MacPhee & Flemming, 2003 |-- †Amblyrhiza inundata (Lesser Antillean Giant Hutia) `-- †Elasmodontomys obliquus (Anthony, 1916) [incl. Heptaxodon bidens Anthony, 1917] (Puerto Rican Giant Hutia)
Reference(s):
- MacPhee, R. D. E. & Flemming, C., 2003: A Possible Heptaxodontine and Other Caviidan Rodents from the Quaternary of Jamaica.
–American Museum Novitates: Vol. #3422, pp. 1-42 - McKenna, M. C. & Bell, S. K., (eds.) 1997: Classification of mammals – above the species level.
–Columbia University Press, New York, 1997, xii-631