| Muenster yellow-toothed cavy | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Caviidae |
| Genus: | Galea |
| Species: | G. monasteriensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Galea monasteriensis Solmsdorff, Kock, Hohoff & Sachser, 2004 |
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The Muenster yellow-toothed cavy (Galea monasteriensis) is a species of rodent in the family Caviidae. It is known only from one location in Valle Hermoso in Bolivia, at an elevation of 2557 m.[1] Specimens from this location were shipped to Muenster, Germany in 1997 for laboratory research, where the species was recognized and described.[1]
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