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    The family Chinchillidae is in the order Rodentia and consists of the chinchillas, the viscachas, and their fossil relatives. This family is restricted...
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    Chile. Along with their relatives, viscachas, they make up the family Chinchillidae. They are also related to the chinchilla rat. The chinchilla has the...
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    Viscacha (category Chinchillidae)
    rare rodents of two genera (Lagidium and Lagostomus) in the family Chinchillidae. They are native to South America and convergently resemble rabbits...
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    nutrias Family Capromyidae: hutias Superfamily Chinchilloidea Family Chinchillidae: chinchillas and allies Family Dinomyidae: pacaranas Pangolins, another...
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    short-tailed chinchilla (Chinchilla chinchilla) is a small rodent part of the Chinchillidae family and is classified as an endangered species by the IUCN. Originating...
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    ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. Bennett, E.T. (1835). "On the Chinchillidae, a family of herbivorous Rodentia, and on a new genus referrible [sic]...
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    Southern viscacha (category Chinchillidae)
    (Lagidium viscacia) is a species of viscacha, a rodent in the family Chinchillidae found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. It is a colonial animal...
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    Capromyidae (hutias) Caviidae (guinea pigs, wild cavies, and capybaras) Chinchillidae (chinchillas and viscachas) Ctenomyidae (tuco-tucos) Cuniculidae (pacas)...
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    Lagidium (category Chinchillidae)
    Lagidium is a genus of rodents in the family Chinchillidae. Prior to 2009, most authors considered there to be three species of mountain viscachas. However...
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    Erethizontidae: New World porcupines Superfamily Chinchilloidea Family Chinchillidae: chinchillas, viscachas Family Dinomyidae: pacaranas Superfamily Cavioidea...
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    Lagostomus (category Chinchillidae)
    Lagostomus is a South American genus of rodents in the family Chinchillidae. It contains a single living species, the plains viscacha, and it is the only...
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    Northern viscacha (category Chinchillidae)
    (Lagidium peruanum) is a species of viscacha, a rodent in the family Chinchillidae. It is known from Peru and Chile, at elevations from 300 to 5000 m,...
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    Plains viscacha (category Chinchillidae)
    (Lagostomus maximus) is a species of viscacha, a rodent in the family Chinchillidae. It is the only living species within the genus Lagostomus. It is found...
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    Erethizontidae: (19 species) New World porcupines (New World) Family Chinchillidae: (3 species) chinchillas and viscachas (South America) Family Dinomyidae:...
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    Rodents are animals that gnaw with two continuously growing incisors. Forty percent of mammal species are rodents, and they inhabit every continent except...
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  • (Isolobodon portoricensis) Samaná hutia (Plagiodontia ipnaeum) Family Chinchillidae Lagostomus crassus Family Cricetidae Candango mouse (Juscelinomys candango)...
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    Chinchilloidea Abrocomidae - chinchilla rats †Borikenomys - incertae sedis Chinchillidae - chinchillas and viscachas †Heptaxodontidae - giant hutias †Maquiamys...
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  • Spotorno, A.E. & Albuja, L.H. 2009. A new species of mountain viscacha (Chinchillidae: Lagidium Meyen) from the Ecuadorean Andes. Zootaxa 2126:41–57. Lepilemur...
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    †Neoepiblemidae Superfamily Chinchilloidea Abrocomidae – chinchilla rats Chinchillidae – chinchillas and viscachas Superfamily Erethizontoidea Erethizontidae...
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    Wolffsohn's viscacha (category Chinchillidae)
    as chinchillón anaranjado, is a rare species of rodent in the family Chinchillidae. This species occurs in southwestern Argentina and adjacent Chile. It...
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    Lagidium ahuacaense (category Chinchillidae)
    and the chinchillas (Chinchilla), Lagidium forms the rodent family Chinchillidae. Within Lagidium, L. ahuacaense differs by at least 7.9% from all other...
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  • Family Abrocomidae Genus Abrocoma - chinchilla rat Genus Cuscomys Family Chinchillidae Genus Chinchilla Genus Lagidium Genus Lagostomus Family Dinomyidae Genus...
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    American and Brazilian porcupines Chinchillas and viscachas (family Chinchillidae) Pacaranas and extinct relatives, such as the giant rodent Josephoartigasia...
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  • Caviidae Family Cuniculidae Family Dasyproctidae Family Abrocomidae Family Chinchillidae Family Dinomyidae Family Erethizontidae Family Capromyidae Family Ctenomyidae...
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  • spinosus LC Brown hairy dwarf porcupine, Coendou vestitus DD Family: Chinchillidae (viscachas and chinchillas) Genus: Chinchilla Short-tailed chinchilla...
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  • Eoviscaccia (category Chinchillidae)
    Kramarz, Alejandro Gustavo (2001). "Registro de Eoviscaccia (Rodentia, Chinchillidae) en estratos colhuehuapenses de Patagonia, Argentina". Ameghiniana (in...
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    Lagostominae (category Chinchillidae)
    Lagostominae is a subfamily of the family Chinchillidae. It contains the genus Lagostomus and two extinct genera, Prolagostomus and Pliolagostomus. Rasia...
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    On 19 August 2018, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species identified 4584 endangered species, subspecies, stocks and subpopulations. Diporochaeta pounamu...
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  • nov Valid Croft et al. Miocene  Bolivia  Chile A member of the family Chinchillidae. Genus includes new species M. surirense and M. plurinacionalis. Myomimus...
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  • the family Plantaginaceae Lagotis, a genus of rodents in the family Chinchillidae, synonym of Lagidium Lagotis, a genus of plants in the family Rubiaceae...
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