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Dasyprocta leporina
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Description
Dasyprocta leporina (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:59.
TYPE LOCALITY: Suriname, Peninka, Peninka Creek and Cennewijne River.
DISTRIBUTION: Lesser Antilles, Venezuela, Guianas, Amazonian and E Brazil, introduced into the Virgin Islands.
STATUS: Common.
SYNONYMS: aguti, aliba, cayana, cayennae, croconota, flavescens, fulvus, lucifer, lunaris, maraxica, noblei, rubrata.
COMMENTS: Husson (1978:462-463) explained why Mus leporinus has priority, and why aguti should be synonymized. Recognized as D. aguti cayana by Cabrera (1961:585-586); may also include cristata. Includes albida, antillensis, and noblei; see Varona (1974:75), who included these forms in aguti.
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 782, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/1D26FFF6FFD8FFD7FFE1FC69FFB0DF05 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Dasyproctidae
- Genus
- Dasyprocta
- Species
- leporina
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dasyprocta leporina (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Woods, 1993
References
- Husson, A. M. 1978. The mammals of Suriname. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 569 pp., 160 pls.
- Varona, L. S. 1974. Catalogo de los mamiferos vivientes y extinguidos de las Antillas. Instituto de Zoologia, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba (Havana), 139 pp.