Lagostomus | |
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Plains viscacha | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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) | |
Species | |
Synonyms | |
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]