🦋 Family

Chinchillidae

3 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › Mammalia › Rodentia › Chinchillidae

Wolffsohn's viscacha (Lagidium wolffsohni) is a large mammal defined by distinct orange-clay fur and a bushy tail.

Lagidium viscacha, the southern viscacha, is a agile rocky mountain rodent native to the Andes of western South America.

Lagostomus maximus, the plains viscacha, is the largest Chinchillidae rodent living communally in South American burrows.

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Sciuridae 144 species Cricetidae 53 species Muridae 30 species Heteromyidae 16 species Geomyidae 12 species Caviidae 11 species Dasyproctidae 7 species Dipodidae 6 species

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