Caviinae

Caviinae Temporal range: Late Miocene - Holocene
Cavia porcellus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Caviidae
Subfamily:	Caviinae Fischer de Waldheim, 1817
Genera
†Cardiomys †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, capybaras, and Kerodon. The subfamily traditionally contained the guinea pig or cavy-like forms along with the cursorially adapted (running) Kerodon. Molecular results suggest the Caviinae as so defined would be paraphyletic and Kerodon is more closely related to maras and capybaras than to other caviines.^[1] This led Woods and Kilpatrick (2005) to unite Kerodon and capybaras into the subfamily Hydrochoerinae within the Caviidae. These studies also suggest Microcavia and Cavia are more closely related to one another than either is to Galea.

• Subfamily Caviinae
  • †Cardiomys
  • †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 - Muenster yellow-toothed cavy
    • 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 pig

• 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
• Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1552–1555. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

• "Cavy" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.