Northern Viscacha

Northern Viscacha
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Chinchillidae
Genus:	Lagidium
Species:	L. peruanum
Binomial name
Lagidium peruanum Meyen, 1833

The Northern Viscacha (Lagidium peruanum) is a species of rodent in the family Chinchillidae.^[2] It is known from Chile and Peru, at elevations from 300 to 5000 m, and may also be present in Bolivia.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Pacheco, V., Zeballos, H., Vivar, E. & Bernal, N. (2008). Lagidium peruanum. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2009.
2. ^ 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.). p. 1551. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400136.