Chinchilla chinchilla Lichtenstein 1829

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 : 1550

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scientific name	Chinchilla chinchilla Lichtenstein 1829
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Chinchilla chinchilla Lichtenstein 1829 , Darst, neu o. wenig. Bekannt. Saugeth.: 2 unnumbered pages.

Type Locality: Peru, vicinity of Lima.

Vernacular Names: Short-tailed Chinchilla.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Chinchilla chinchilla subsp. chinchilla Lichtenstein 1829

Subspecies Chinchilla chinchilla subsp. boliviana Brass 1911

Distribution: Andes of S Bolivia, S Peru, NW Argentina, and Chile.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I (non-domesticated forms only); U.S. ESA – Endangered as C. brevicauda boliviana ; IUCN – Critically Endangered as C. brevicauda .

Discussion: Recognized as brevicauda by Cabrera (1961) and Woods (1993) but see Osgood (1943) and Anderson (1997). Pine et al. (1979) included brevicaudata in lanigera without comment.