Shiny guinea pig
Shiny guinea pig | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Caviidae |
Genus: | Cavia |
Species: | C. fulgida
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Binomial name | |
Cavia fulgida Wagler, 1831
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The shiny guinea pig (Cavia fulgida) is a guinea pig species of southeastern South America.
The rodent is endemic to Brazil. It is native to the Atlantic Forest ecoregions.
Taxonomy[]
Wagler in 1831 first called the species Cavia fulgida; identified a Cavia rufescens in 1841, but since Oldfield Thomas (1901) these are considered to be identical species.[2]
See also[]
- Fauna of the Atlantic Forest (biome)
References[]
- ^ Amori, G. (2016). "Cavia fulgida". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T4065A22188918. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T4065A22188918.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ Weir, Barbara J. (1974), "Notes on the Origin of the Domestic Guinea-Pig", in Rowlands, I. W.; Weir, Barbara J. (eds.), The Biology of Hystricomorph Rodents, Academic Press, pp. 437–446, ISBN 0126133344
Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Guinea pigs
- Fauna of the Atlantic Forest (biome)
- Mammals of Brazil
- Rodents of South America
- Mammals described in 1831
- Taxa named by Johann Georg Wagler
- Rodent stubs