Kalinowski's agouti

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Kalinowski's agouti
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Dasyproctidae
Genus: Dasyprocta
Species: D. kalinowskii
Binomial name
Dasyprocta kalinowskii
Thomas, 1897

Kalinowski's agouti (Dasyprocta kalinowskii) is a species of rodent in the family Dasyproctidae. It is endemic to Peru. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

  1. Tirira, D., Boada, C., Weksler, M., Anderson, R. P. & Gómez-Laverde, M. (2008). Dasyprocta kalinowskii. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 5 January 2009.
  • Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. pp 1538–1600 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
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