Lagostomus

Lagostomus
	Plains viscacha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Chinchillidae
Subfamily:	Lagostominae
Genus:	Lagostomus; Brookes, 1828
Species
	†Lagostomus crassus; Lagostomus maximus; †Lagostomus telenkechanum; †Lagostomus trichodactylus;
Synonyms
	Viscacia (Rengger, 1830)

Lagostomus is a South American genus of rodents in the family Chinchillidae. It contains a single living species, the plains viscacha, and it is the only Holocene genus in the subfamily Lagostominae.

References

^ Rasia, Luciano L., and Adriana M. Candela. 2016. Lagostomus telenkechanum, sp. nov., a new lagostomine rodent (Caviomorpha, Chinchillidae) from the Arroyo Chasicó Formation (late Miocene; Buenos Aires Province, Argentina). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37. e1239205. Accessed 2019-02-04.
^ Spotorno, Angel E.; Patton, James L. (2015-03-09). "Superfamily Chinchilloidea Bennett, 1833". In Patton, James L.; Pardiñas, Ulyses F. J.; D’Elía, Guillermo (eds.). Mammals of South America, Volume 2: Rodents. University of Chicago Press. p. 780. ISBN 9780226169606.

[RasiaCandela2016-1] Rasia, Luciano L., and Adriana M. Candela. 2016. Lagostomus telenkechanum, sp. nov., a new lagostomine rodent (Caviomorpha, Chinchillidae) from the Arroyo Chasicó Formation (late Miocene; Buenos Aires Province, Argentina). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37. e1239205. Accessed 2019-02-04.

[Spotorno2015-2] Spotorno, Angel E.; Patton, James L. (2015-03-09). "Superfamily Chinchilloidea Bennett, 1833". In Patton, James L.; Pardiñas, Ulyses F. J.; D’Elía, Guillermo (eds.). Mammals of South America, Volume 2: Rodents. University of Chicago Press. p. 780. ISBN 9780226169606.

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