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pacarana (Dinomys branickii)
Subject: pacarana (Dinomys branickii)
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pacarana (Dinomys branickii)


A Pacarana (Dinomys branickii) photographed in a jungle house near Santa Maria, Peru
Date 7 October 2010
Author Benjamin Frable
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The pacarana (Dinomys branickii) is a rare and slow-moving hystricognath rodent indigenous to South America. Native peoples of the region call it the pacarana (false paca) because it is superficially similar to the paca, a different rodent which is not in the same family. The pacarana is the sole extant member of the rodent family Dinomyidae in the infraorder Caviomorpha; the paca that it resembles in appearance is in a different Caviomorph family, the Cuniculidae.
Order: Rodentia
Family: Dinomyidae
Genus: Dinomys
Species: Dinomys branickii Peters, 1873

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