Cavia aperea Erxleben, 1777

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 : 573

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scientific name	Cavia aperea Erxleben, 1777
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Cavia aperea Erxleben, 1777 View in CoL . Syst. Regn. Anim., 1:348.

TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Pernambuco .

DISTRIBUTION: Colombia; Venezuela; Guianas; Brazil; N. Argentina; Uruguay; Paraguay.

COMMENT: Includes guianae; see Huckinghaus, 1961, Z. Wiss. Zool., 166:58, and Husson, 1978:449; but also see Cabrera, 1961:578, who placed guianae in porcellus . Corbet and Hill, 1980:189, listed guianae as a distinct species without comment. Includes pamparum; see Massoia and Fornes, 1967, Acta Zool. Lilloana, 23:407-430, and Huckinghaus, 1961, Z. Wiss. Zool., 166:57; but see Cabrera, 1961:577, who listed pamparum as a distinct species.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410019001001001 as C. aperea .

5301410019001004001 as C. pamparum.