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--> FAMILY Cuniculidae
--> GENUS Cuniculus
SPECIES Cuniculus taczanowskii
| Author: | Stolzmann, 1865. | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865: 161. | | Common Name: | Mountain Paca | | Type Locality: | Ecuador, Andes. | | Distribution: | Mountains of Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and NW Venezuela. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt) as Agouti taczanowskii. | | Comments: | Placed in Stictomys by Cabrera (1961:595) and in Agouti by Handley (1976:55) and Gardner (1971:1088). Karyotype has 2n=42 and FN=80 (Gardner, 1971). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
andina (Lönnberg, 1913)
sierrae (Thomas, 1905)
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