HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER HYSTRICOMORPHA
--> INFRAORDER HYSTRICOGNATHI
--> FAMILY Octodontidae
--> GENUS Octodon
SPECIES Octodon bridgesi
Author: | Waterhouse, 1844. | Actual Date: | 1845 | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1844: 155. | Common Name: | Bridges’s Degu | Type Locality: | Chile, Curico Prov., Rio Teno. | Distribution: | Chilean Andes from 34o15’ to at least 40oS (Redford and Eisenberg, 1992). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Once common, but now quite rare (Redford and Eisenberg, 1992). | Comments: | Massoia (1979:36) reported Octodon, perhaps bridgesi, from S Argentina. Karyotype has 2n=58 and FN=112 (Gallardo, 1992). |
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