- Source: Cavia guianae
Cavia guianae is a guinea pig species from South America. It is found in southern Venezuela, Guyana, and portions of northern Brazil. Some biologists believe it to be a feral offshoot of the domestic guinea pig, Cavia porcellus; others subsume it under the wild cavy, Cavia aperea. Molecular data collected show there is little genetic differentiation in C.a. guianae known to be a lowland locality in comparison to C. anolaimae which are predominantly highland populations.
References
Sources
Woods C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi pp. 1538-1600 in D. E. Wilson and M. A. Reeder, eds. Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, p. 1553.
Nowak, Ronald M. (1999). Walker's Mammals of the World (6th ed.). pp. 1667–1669. ISBN 0-8018-5789-9.
Dunnum, Jonathan L.; Salazar-Bravo, Jorge (2010–11). "Molecular systematics, taxonomy and biogeography of the genus Cavia (Rodentia: Caviidae): Systematics of Cavia". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 48 (4): 376–388. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.2009.00561.x.
Citations
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Cavia
- Cavia guianae
- Cavia
- Cavia anolaimae
- Guinea pig
- Brazilian guinea pig
- List of rodents
- Negro–Branco moist forests
- List of mammals of South America
- List of mammals of French Guiana
- List of mammals of Brazil
