Lagidium wolffsohni

(O. Thomas, 1907)

Wolffsohn's Mountain Viscacha

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Hystricomorpha
Infraorder : Hystricognathi
Superfamily : Chinchilloidea
Family : Chinchillidae
Genus : Lagidium

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1907-04-30. On a remarkable mountain viscacha from southern Patagonia, with diagnoses of other members of the group. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7)19(113):439-444.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24254900

Original name as described

Viscaccia Wolffsohni

Other common names

Wolffsohn's Viscacha

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1907.4.5.6

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/56c4fbc2-e775-4347-9a77-93bb57e5548c

Type locality

"Sierra de los Baguales y de las Vizcachas, lat. 50° 50' S., long. 72° 20' W., on the boundary between Chili [= Chile] and Argentina."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Argentina · Chile

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001234

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Viscaccia Wolffsohni

(O. Thomas, 1907)

Family

Chinchillidae

Root name

wolffsohni

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1907.4.5.6

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/56c4fbc2-e775-4347-9a77-93bb57e5548c

Authority page

440

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24254900

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Lagidium wolffsohni

J. Yepes, 1935

Family

Chinchillidae

Root name

wolffsohni

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

247

Authority publication

Revista del Instituto de Bacteriología

Name usages

  1. Yepes (1935:247) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67335)
  2. Corbet & Hill (1980:191) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  3. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:578) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  4. Woods & Kilpatrick (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8545)
  5. Wilson, Lacher & Mittermeier (2016:481) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59599)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #11149) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #11149) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001234) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  9. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/11149/78320504) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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