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Cavia (guinea pig)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Caviidae

Taxonomy

Cavia was named by Pallas (1766). It is extant.

It was assigned to Subungulata by Illiger (1811); to Caviina by Gray (1825); and to Caviidae by McKenna and Bell (1997), Spotorno et al. (2004) and Salles et al. (2006).

Species

C. (Cavia), C. aperea, C. cabrerai, C. fulgida, C. galileoi, C. intermedia, C. lamingnae, C. magna, C. oeningensis, C. patzelti, C. porcellus (syn. C. cobaya), C. tschudii, C. vates

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1766	Cavia Pallas
1811	Cavia Illiger p. 93
1825	Cavia Gray p. 341
1997	Cavia McKenna and Bell
2004	Cavia Spotorno et al. p. 244
2006	Cavia Salles et al. p. 9

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes

Rank	Name	Author
class	Mammalia
—	Theriamorpha	(Rowe 1993)
—	Theriiformes	()
—	Trechnotheria
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
—	Gliriformes	Wyss and Meng 1996
—	Glires	()
—	Simplicidentata	()
order	Rodentia	Bowdich 1821
—	Ctenohystrica	Huchon et al. 2000
infraorder	Hystricognathi	(Tullberg 1899)
—	Caviomorpha	(Wood and Patterson 1955)
superfamily	Cavioidea	Fischer de Waldheim 1817
family	Caviidae
genus	Cavia	Pallas 1766

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Cavia Pallas 1766 [guinea pig]

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Subg. Cavia (Cavia) Pallas 1766

Cavia aperea Erxleben 1777 [Brazilian guinea pig]

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Cavia aperea aperea Erxleben 1777

Cavia aperea guianae Thomas 1901

Invalid names: Cavia anolaimae Allen 1916 [synonym], Cavia guianae caripensis Ojasti 1964 [synonym]

Cavia aperea nana Thomas 1917

Cavia aperea pamparum Thomas 1901

Invalid names: Cavia porcellus venezuelae Allen 1911 [synonym]

Cavia aperea hypoleuca Cabrera 1953