Uspallata Chinchilla Rat

Uspallata Chinchilla Rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Abrocomidae
Genus: Abrocoma
Species: A. uspallata
Binomial name
Abrocoma uspallata
Braun & Mares, 2002

The Uspallata Chinchilla Rat (Abrocoma uspallata) is a species of chinchilla rat in the family Abrocomidae native to Argentina. This species was identified in 2002, by Braun and Mares from the University of Oklahoma. Only a single specimen exists.[2]

References

  1. ^ Ojeda, R. & Jayat, J. P. (2008). Abrocoma uspallata. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2009.
  2. ^ Braun, Janet K.; Mares, Michael A. (February 2002). "Systematics of the Abrocoma cinerea species complex (Rodentia: Abrocomidae), with a description of a new species of Abrocoma". Journal of Mammalogy 83 (1): 1–19. doi:10.1644/1545-1542(2002)083<0001:SOTACS>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1545-1542.