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Shiny 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. fulgida;
Binomial name
	Cavia fulgida; Wagler, 1831

The Shiny Guinea Pig, Cavia fulgida, is a guinea pig species from South America. It is found in Brazil.

Wagler in 1831 first called the species Cavia fulgida; P. W. Lund identified a Cavia rufescens in 1841, but since Oldfield Thomas (1901) these are considered to be identical species.^[2]

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^ Amori, G., Koprowski, J. & Roth, L. (2008). Cavia fulgida. 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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[iucn-0] Amori, G., Koprowski, J. & Roth, L. (2008). Cavia fulgida. 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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