Orinoco Agouti

Orinoco Agouti
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Dasyproctidae
Genus:	Dasyprocta
Species:	D. guamara
Binomial name
Dasyprocta guamara Ojasti, 1972

The Orinoco Agouti (Dasyprocta guamara) is a species of rodent in the family Dasyproctidae. It is endemic to Venezuela.

References

1. ^ Ochoa, J. & Rivas, B. (2008). Dasyprocta guamara. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2009.

• Woods, Charles A.; Kilpatrick, C. William (16 November 2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi (pp. 1538-1600)". 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.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400231.