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Brazilian Guinea Pig
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia;
Phylum:	Chordata;
Class:	Mammalia;
Order:	Rodentia;
Family:	Caviidae;
Genus:	Cavia;
Species:	C. aperea;
Binomial name
	Cavia aperea; Erxleben, 1777

The Brazilian Guinea Pig, Cavia aperea, is a guinea pig species from South America. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Uruguay.

Cavia aperea has been successfully mated to the domestic guinea pig, Cavia porcellus, though many females become infertile in successive generations.^[2] The "Cavia aperea" was also bred with another unknown animal in S. America to create today's domestic guinea pig.

[edit] References

^ Dunnum, J., Zeballos, H., Vargas, J., Bernal, N., Brito, D., Queirolo, D., Pardinas, U. & D'Elia, G. (2008). Cavia aperea. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2009.
^ Weir, Barbara J. (1974), "Notes on the Origin of the Domestic Guinea-Pig", in Rowlands, I. W.; Weir, Barbara J., The Biology of Hystricomorph Rodents, Academic Press, pp. pp. 437–446, ISBN 0-12-6133334-4

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Infonatura
(Portuguese) Globo Rural

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[iucn-0] Dunnum, J., Zeballos, H., Vargas, J., Bernal, N., Brito, D., Queirolo, D., Pardinas, U. & D'Elia, G. (2008). Cavia aperea. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2009.

[weir-1] Weir, Barbara J. (1974), "Notes on the Origin of the Domestic Guinea-Pig", in Rowlands, I. W.; Weir, Barbara J., The Biology of Hystricomorph Rodents, Academic Press, pp. pp. 437–446, ISBN 0-12-6133334-4

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