Bolivian Chinchilla Rat

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Bolivian Chinchilla Rat
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Abrocomidae Genus: Abrocoma Species: A. boliviensis
Binomial name
Abrocoma boliviensis Glanz & Anderson, 1990

The Bolivian Chinchilla Rat (Abrocoma boliviensis) is a species of chinchilla rat in the Abrocomidae family. It is found only in Bolivia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

[edit] References

• Contreras, L. 1996. Abrocoma boliviensis. 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.

v • d • e Extant species of family Abrocomidae (Chinchilla rats) Kingdom: Animalia · Phylum: Chordata · Class: Mammalia · Order: Rodentia · Suborder: Hystricomorpha · Infraorder: Caviomorpha Abrocoma Bennett's Chinchilla Rat (Abrocoma bennettii) · Bolivian Chinchilla Rat (Abrocoma boliviensis) · Budin's Chinchilla Rat (Abrocoma budini) · Ashy Chinchilla Rat (Abrocoma cinerea) · Famatina Chinchilla Rat (Abrocoma famatina) · Sierra del Tontal Chinchilla Rat (Abrocoma shistacea) · Uspallata Chinchilla Rat (Abrocoma uspallata) · Abrocoma vaccarum Cuscomys Cuscomys ashaninka Category