Common yellow-toothed cavy

Life

Common yellow-toothed cavy
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Caviidae
Genus:	Galea
Species:	G. musteloides
Binomial name
Galea musteloides Meyen, 1832

The common yellow-toothed cavy (Galea musteloides) is a species of rodent in the family Caviidae.^[2] It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. It's karyotype has 2n = 68 and FN = 136.^[2]

References

1. ^ Dunnum, J., Pardina, U., Zeballos, H. & Ojeda, R. (2008). Galea musteloides. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2009.
2. ^ ^{a b} Musser, Guy G.; Carleton, Michael D. (16 November 2005). "Superfamily Muroidea (pp. 894-1531)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 1554. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400191.