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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER HYSTRICOMORPHA
--> INFRAORDER HYSTRICOGNATHI
--> FAMILY Chinchillidae
--> GENUS Lagostomus
SPECIES Lagostomus crassus
| Author: | Thomas, 1910. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 5: 246. | | Common Name: | Peruvian Plains Viscacha | | Type Locality: | Peru, Dist. Cuzco, Santa Ana. | | Distribution: | Know only from the type locality. | | Status: | Extinct. | | Comments: | Known only by single skull from S Peru, presumably of an animal that lived in recent times (Nowak, 1999). |
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