Common yellow-toothed cavy

Life

Common yellow-toothed cavy
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Caviidae
Genus: Galea
Species: G. musteloides
Binomial name
Galea musteloides
Meyen, 1832

The common yellow-toothed cavy (Galea musteloides) is a species of rodent in the family Caviidae.[2] It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. It's karyotype has 2n = 68 and FN = 136.[2]

References

  1. ^ Dunnum, J., Pardina, U., Zeballos, H. & Ojeda, R. (2008). Galea musteloides. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2009.
  2. ^ a b Musser, Guy G.; Carleton, Michael D. (16 November 2005). "Superfamily Muroidea (pp. 894-1531)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 1554. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400191.