Lagidium moreni

O. Thomas, 1897

Southern 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

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1897-04-01. On a new species of Lagidium from the eastern coast of Patagonia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)19(112):466-467.

Original name as described

Lagidium Moreni

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1896.10.7.7

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Chubut, Patagonia", Argentina.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Chile · Argentina

Taxonomy notes

split from L. viscacia; includes the name boxi, which has been considered both a distinct species and a synonym or subspecies of L. viscacia as well

Taxonomy notes citation

Teta, P., & Lucero, S. O. (2017). Notes on the taxonomy of mountain viscachas of the genus Lagidium Meyen 1833 (Rodentia: Chinchillidae). Therya, 8(1), 27-33.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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