Cavia guianae

Taxobox | name = "Cavia guianae"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Caviidae
genus = "Cavia"
species = "C. guianae"
binomial = "Cavia guianae"
binomial_authority = Thomas, 1901

"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".

References

* 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.
*cite book | last = Nowak | first = Ronald M. | title = Walker's Mammals of the World | edition = 6th edition | date = 1999 | pages = pp. 1667-1669 | id = ISBN 0-8018-5789-9|
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