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pacarana (Dinomys branickii)
| Subject: | pacarana (Dinomys branickii)
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Date: 2010:10:09 10:54:38
Camera: StylusTough-8010 (OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. )
F number: f/3.9
Exposure: 1/30 sec
Focal Length: 500/100
Upload Date: 2017:06:03 00:30:51
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A Pacarana (Dinomys branickii) photographed in a jungle house near Santa Maria, Peru
Date 7 October 2010
Author Benjamin Frable
Source:
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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