Shiny guinea pig
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| Shiny guinea pig | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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 first called the species Cavia fulgida in 1831; P. W. Lund identified a Cavia rufescens in 1841, but since Oldfield Thomas (1901) these are considered to be identical species.[2]
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
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