Cavia tschudii Fitzinger 1857

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Caviidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1552-1556 : 1553

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scientific name	Cavia tschudii Fitzinger 1857
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Cavia tschudii Fitzinger 1857 , Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien: 154.

Type Locality: Peru, Ica Dept., Ica.

Vernacular Names: Montane Guinea Pig.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Cavia tschudii subsp. tschudii Fitzinger 1857

Subspecies Cavia tschudii subsp. arequipae Osgood 1919

Subspecies Cavia tschudii subsp. festina Thomas 1927

Subspecies Cavia tschudii subsp. osgoodi Sandborn 1949

Subspecies Cavia tschudii subsp. sodalis Thomas 1926

Subspecies Cavia tschudii subsp. stolida Thomas 1926

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

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Common.

Discussion: Formerly included in aperea by Hückinghaus (1961:57); but see Cabrera (1961:579) and Pine et al. (1979:361), who considered tschudii a distinct species. Anderson (1997) recognized nana as a subspecies but Hückinghaus placed in synonymy with sodalis. Includes stolida (Cabrera, 1961:579), but also see Hückinghaus (1961:58), who considered stolida a distinct species.