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The Shiny Guinea Pig, Cavia fulgida, is a guinea pig species from South America. It is found in Brazil.
Wagler in 1831 first called the species Cavia fulgida; P. W. Lund identified a Cavia rufescens in 1841, but since Oldfield Thomas (1901) these are considered to be identical species.[1]
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- ^ Weir, Barbara J. (1974), “Notes on the Origin of the Domestic Guinea-Pig”, in Rowlands, I. W. & Weir, Barbara J., The Biology of Hystricomorph Rodents, Academic Press, pp. pp. 437-446, ISBN 0-12-6133334-4
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