Northern Viscacha

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Northern Viscacha
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Chinchillidae
Genus: Lagidium
Species: L. peruanum
Binomial name
Lagidium peruanum
Meyen, 1833

The Northern Viscacha (Lagidium peruanum) is a species of rodent in the family Chinchillidae.[2] It is known from Chile and Peru, at elevations from 300 to 5000 m, and may also be present in Bolivia.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Pacheco, V., Zeballos, H., Vivar, E. & Bernal, N. (2008). Lagidium peruanum. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2009.
  2. ^ Woods, Charles A.; Kilpatrick, C. William (16 November 2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi (pp. 1538-1600)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 1551. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400136. 
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