Shiny Guinea Pig | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Caviidae |
Genus: | Cavia |
Species: | C. fulgida |
Binomial name | |
Cavia fulgida Wagler, 1831 |
The Shiny Guinea Pig, Cavia fulgida, is a guinea pig species from South America. It is found in Brazil and Argentina
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.[2]
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