| Shiny Guinea Pig | |
|---|---|
| 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]
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||