Dasyprocta leporina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Pierre, Meshach A., Ignacio, Leroy & Paemelaere, Evi A. D., 2020, Large- and medium-bodied terrestrial mammals of the Upper Berbice region of Guyana, Check List 16 (5), pp. 1229-1237 : 1233

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/16.5.1229

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BB87F5-FFB5-FFCC-264D-FB5772944456

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scientific name

Dasyprocta leporina (Linnaeus, 1758)
status

 

Dasyprocta leporina (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

Figure 4E

New record. GUYANA • East Berbice-Corentyne Re- gion (6); 04°07.55′N, 058°09.99′W; 21 Sep. 2014; cam- era trap photo GoogleMaps .

Identification. Identified by its bright red rump, lack of a tail, and overall larger size relative to Red-Rumped Acouchi ( Emmons and Feer 1997).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Dasyproctidae

Genus

Dasyprocta

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