Dasyprocta leporina (Linnaeus, 1758)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 560-594 : 576

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Dasyprocta leporina (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Dasyprocta leporina (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:59.

TYPE LOCALITY: Surinam, Peninka, Peninka Creek and Cennewijne River .

DISTRIBUTION: Lesser Antilles; Venezuela; Guianas; Amazonian and E. Brazil; introduced into the Virgin Islands.

COMMENT: Recognized as D. agouti cayana by Cabrera, 1961:585-586; but see Husson, 1978:457, 466, who included agouti in this species; may also include cristata . Includes albida, antillensis, and noblei; see Varona, 1974:75, who included these forms in agouti .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Dasyproctidae

Genus

Dasyprocta

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Dasyprocta leporina (Linnaeus, 1758)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl 1982
1982
Loc

Dasyprocta leporina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Linnaeus 1758: 59
1758
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