Bennett's chinchilla rat

Bennett's chinchilla rat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Abrocomidae
Genus: Abrocoma
Species: A. bennettii
Binomial name
Abrocoma bennettii
Waterhouse, 1837

Bennett's chinchilla rat (Abrocoma bennettii) is a species of chinchilla rat in the family Abrocomidae.[2] It is found only in Chile.

References

  1. D'elia, G. & Ojeda, R. (2008). Abrocoma bennettii. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 5 January 2009.
  2. Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1574. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

Further reading

Gallardo, Milton; Kirsch, John (March 2001). "Molecular relationships among Octodontidae (Mammalia: Rodentia: Caviomorpha)". Journal of Mammalian Evolution 8 (1). doi:10.1023/A:1011345000786. 


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