Porter's rock rat
Species of rodent
| Porter's rock rat[1] | |
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Conservation status | |
 Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)[2] | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Octodontidae |
| Genus: | Aconaemys |
| Species: | A. porteri |
| Binomial name | |
| Aconaemys porteri Thomas, 1917 | |
Porter's rock rat (Aconaemys porteri) is a species of rodent in the family Octodontidae.[1][3] It is found in Argentina and Chile at altitudes between 900 and 2,000 meters above sea level.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1538–1600. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Roach, N. (2016). "Aconaemys porteri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T136331A22239645. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T136331A22239645.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ Gallardo, Milton H. (February 1992). "Karyotypic Evolution in Octodontid Rodents Based on C-Band Analysis". Journal of Mammalogy. 73 (1). Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 73, No. 1: 89–98. doi:10.2307/1381869. JSTOR 1381869.
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Extant species of family Octodontidae
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Rodentia
- Suborder: Hystricomorpha
- Chilean rock rat (Aconaemys fuscus)
- Porter's rock rat (Aconaemys porteri)
- Sage's rock rat (Aconaemys sagei)
- Bridges's degu (Octodon bridgesi)
- Common degu (Octodon degus)
- Moon-toothed degu (Octodon lunatus)
- Pacific degu (Octodon pacificus)
- Ricardo Ojeda's degu (Octodon ricardojeda)
- Mountain degu (Octodontomys gliroides)
- Mountain viscacha rat (Octomys mimax)
- Golden viscacha rat (Pipanacoctomys aureus)
- Coruro (Spalacopus cyanus)
- Plains viscacha rat (Tympanoctomys barrerae)
- Kirchner's viscacha rat (Tympanoctomys kirchnerorum)
- Chalchalero viscacha rat (Tympanoctomys loschalchalerosorum)
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