Cavia tschudii Fitzinger, 1857

Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 771-806 : 779

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Cavia tschudii Fitzinger, 1857 View in CoL . Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, p. 154.

TYPE LOCALITY: Peru, lea Dept., Ica .

DISTRIBUTION: Peru, S Bolivia, NW Argentina, N Chile.

STATUS: Common.

SYNONYMS: arequipae, atahualpae; cutleri Tschudi, 1844, festina, osgoodi, pallidior, sodalis, stolida, umbrata.

COMMENTS: Formerly included in aperea by Hiickinghaus (1961:57); but see Cabrera (1961:579) and Pine et al. (1979:361), who considered tschudii a distinct species. Includes stolida (Cabrera, 1961:579), but also see Hiickinghaus (1961:58), who considered stolida a distinct species.