Hydrochoerus Brisson, 1762

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Rank:	Genus
Spelling:	Hydrochoerus
Authorship:	Brisson
Publication:	Brisson, Mathurin-Jacques. 1762 Regnum animale in classes IX. distributum, sive, Synopsis methodica : sistens generalem animalium distributionem in classes IX, & duarum primarum classium, quadrupedum scilicet & cetaceorum, particularem divisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera & species. Cum brevi cujusque speciei descriptione, citationibus auctorum de iis tractantium, nominibus eis ab ipsis & nationibus impositis, nominibusque vulgaribus. Lugduni Batavorum. (Haak) Editio altera auctior: [7 unnumbered pages] + 1-296.
Page:	12,80
Type Species:	by designation under the plenary power: Sus hydrochaeris Linnaeus, 1766, Systema Naturae, ed.12, 1 (1): 103 ------- Hydrochoerus Brisson, 1762: - ruled under the plenary power to be taken as first available from Brisson, 1762,   despite that being a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes - placed on the Official List of Generic Names (Opinion 1894)