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Chinchilla lanigera (long-tailed chinchilla)
Taxonomy
Mus laniger was named by Molina (1782). It is extant. It is the type species of Chinchilla.
It was recombined as Cricetus laniger by Geoffroy (1803); it was recombined as Chinchilla laniger by Gray (1828); it was recombined as Callomys laniger by d'Orbigny and Geoffroy (1830); it was recombined as Lagostomus laniger by Goldfuss (1832); it was recombined as Chinchilla lanigera by Bennett (1833).
It was recombined as Cricetus laniger by Geoffroy (1803); it was recombined as Chinchilla laniger by Gray (1828); it was recombined as Callomys laniger by d'Orbigny and Geoffroy (1830); it was recombined as Lagostomus laniger by Goldfuss (1832); it was recombined as Chinchilla lanigera by Bennett (1833).
Synonymy list
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Chinchilla lanigera Molina 1782 [long-tailed chinchilla]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available