Lagostomus maximus (Desmarest 1817)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Chinchillidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1550-1552 : 1551

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11342589
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D6988430-F544-6906-2114-D1D72B527BDB
treatment provided by	Guido
scientific name	Lagostomus maximus (Desmarest 1817)
status

Treatment

Lagostomus maximus (Desmarest 1817) View in CoL

[Dipus] maximus Desmarest 1817 View in CoL , Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., Nouv. ed., Vol. 13: 117.

Type Locality: Unknown; possibly from pampas of Buenos Aires, Argentina; see Cabrera (1961).

Vernacular Names: Argentine Plains Viscacha.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Lagostomus maximus subsp. maximus Desmarest 1817

Subspecies Lagostomus maximus subsp. inmollis Thomas 1910

Subspecies Lagostomus maximus subsp. petilidens Hollister 1914

Distribution: N, C, and E Argentina, S and W Paraguay, SE Bolivia.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Reviewed by Jackson et al. (1996). Karyptype has 2n=56 and FN=110 ( George and Weir, 1974).

References

Copyright notice

No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Chinchillidae
Genus	Lagostomus

Lagostomus maximus (Desmarest 1817)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005

2005

[Dipus] maximus

Desmarest 1817: 117

1817

Specimens

Downloads & Links

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF

Version History

Contribution History

Report Problem

Create Feedback Ticket