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Cavia porcellus
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Cavia porcellus (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:59.
TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Pernambuco (questionable).
DISTRIBUTION: Domesticated worldwide; possibly feral in N South America.
SYNONYMS: anolaimae, cobaya; cutleri Bennett, 1836; leucopyga Cabanis, 1848; longipilis.
COMMENTS: Husson (1978:451) reserved the use of porcellus to denote domesticated guinea pigs, which are probably derived from tschudii (Corbet and Hill, 1991:201), but also see Hiickinghaus (1961:96), who regarded porcellus as a synonym of aperea. This species may be a domesticated animal with no established wild population. K. F. Koopman (pers. comm.) believes that N South American populations may be feral domestic guinea pigs; but see comment under aperea.
Notes
Published as part of Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, pp. 771-806 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 779, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083 (DOI)
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References
- Husson, A. M. 1978. The mammals of Suriname. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 569 pp., 160 pls.
- Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1991. A world list of mammalian species. Third ed. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 243 pp.