Budin's Chinchilla Rat

Taxobox
name = Budin's Chinchilla Rat
status = LR/lc
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Abrocomidae
genus = "Abrocoma"
species = "A. budini"
binomial = "Abrocoma budini"
binomial_authority = Thomas, 1920
synonyms =

The Budin's Chinchilla Rat ("Abrocoma budini") is a species of chinchilla rat in the Abrocomidae family. Found only in Argentina, the categorization of this species was based on analysis a single specimen. In 2002, Braun and Mares from the University of Oklahoma examined this specimen and confirmed it to be a separate species.cite journal|title=Systematics of the Abrocoma cinerea species complex (Rodentia: Abrocomidae), with a description of a new species of Abrocoma|author=Braun, Janet K.|coauthors=Mares, Michael A.|month=February|year=2002|journal=Journal of Mammalogy|volume=83|issue=1|pages=1–19|doi=10.1644/1545-1542(2002)083<0001:SOTACS>2.0.CO;2|doilabel=10.1644/1545-1542(2002)0830001:SOTACS2.0.CO;2]

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