Lagostomus
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| Plains viscacha | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Chinchillidae |
| Subfamily: | Lagostominae |
| Genus: | Lagostomus Brookes, 1828 |
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Lagostomus is a South American genus of
rodents in the family Chinchillidae. It contains a single living species, the plains viscacha, and it is the only Holocene genus in the subfamily Lagostominae
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References
- ^ Rasia, Luciano L., and Adriana M. Candela. 2016. Lagostomus telenkechanum, sp. nov., a new lagostomine rodent (Caviomorpha, Chinchillidae) from the Arroyo Chasicó Formation (late Miocene; Buenos Aires Province, Argentina). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(1). e1239205. Accessed 2019-02-04.
- ISBN 9780226169606.
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