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Home Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata Class Mammalia Order Rodentia Suborder Hystricomorpha Family Octodontidae

Family Octodontidae
(degus, rock rats, and viscacha rats)




Chilean rock rat
Aconaemys fuscus
degu
Octodon degus
degu
Octodon degus
 
degu
Octodon degus
degu
Octodon degus
mountain degu
Octodontomys gliroides
 
viscacha rat
Octomys mimax
coruro
Spalacopus cyanus
plains viscacha rat
Tympanoctomys barrerae
 
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Citation: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2008. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org.

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