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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER HYSTRICOMORPHA
--> INFRAORDER HYSTRICOGNATHI
--> FAMILY Chinchillidae
--> GENUS Lagostomus
SPECIES Lagostomus maximus
| Author: | Desmarest, 1817. | | Citation: | Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., Nouv. Ed., 13: 117. | | Common Name: | Argentine Plains Viscacha | | Type Locality: | Unknown; possibly from pampas of Buenos Aires, Argentina; see Cabrera (1961). | | Distribution: | N, C, and E Argentina, S and W Paraguay, SE Bolivia. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Reviewed by Jackson et al. (1996). Karyptype has 2n=56 and FN=110 (George and Weir, 1974). |
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