Ashy Chinchilla Rat

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Ashy Chinchilla Rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Abrocomidae
Genus: Abrocoma
Species: A. cinerea
Binomial name
Abrocoma cinerea
Thomas, 1919

The Ashy Chinchilla Rat (Abrocoma cinerea) is a species of chinchilla rat in the Abrocomidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Abrocoma cinerea. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 18 July 2007.
  • Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. Pp 1538-1600 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.