Octodon degus (Molina, 1782)

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 : 788

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scientific name	Octodon degus (Molina, 1782)
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Octodon degus (Molina, 1782) View in CoL . Sagg. Stor. Nat. Chile, p. 303.

TYPE LOCALITY: Chile, Santiago Prov., Santiago .

DISTRIBUTION: Chile, west slope of the Andes between Vallenar and Curico, to 1,200 m.

STATUS: Common.

SYNONYMS: alba, clivorum, cumingii, getulus, kutnmingii, pallidus , peruana.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Woods and Boraker (1975, Mammalian Species, 67). The chromosome no. is 2n=58.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Octodontidae
Genus	Octodon

Octodon degus (Molina, 1782)

Charles A. Woods 1993

1993

Octodon degus (Molina, 1782)

Molina 1782: 303

1782

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