Lagostomus
Genus of mammals belonging to the chinchilla family of rodents
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Lagostomus is a South American genus of rodents in the family Chinchillidae. It contains a single living species, the plains viscacha, and it is the only Holocene genus in the subfamily Lagostominae. It probably only has one extant species; the taxa Lagostomus crassus is probably not valid.[3]
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| Lagostomus | |
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| Plains viscacha | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Chinchillidae |
| Subfamily: | Lagostominae |
| Genus: | Lagostomus Brookes, 1828 |
| Type species | |
| Lagostomus trichodactylus Brookes, 1828 (= Dipus maximus Desmarest, 1817) | |
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