Porter's Rock Rat

Porter's Rock Rat[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Octodontidae
Genus: Aconaemys
Species: A. porteri
Binomial name
Aconaemys porteri
Thomas, 1917

Porter's Rock Rat (Aconaemys porteri) is a species of rodent in the Octodontidae family.[1][3] It is found in Argentina and Chile at altitudes between 900 and 2,000 meters above sea level.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Woods, Charles A.; Kilpatrick, C. William (16 November 2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi (pp. 1538-1600)". 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.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400369. 
  2. ^ Chapman, R. E. (2008). Aconaemys porteri. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2009.
  3. ^ Gallardo, Milton H. (February 1992). "Karyotypic Evolution in Octodontid Rodents Based on C-Band Analysis". Journal of Mammalogy (Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 73, No. 1) 73 (1): 89–98. doi:10.2307/1381869. JSTOR 1381869.