Cavia Pallas, 1766

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

GENUS

Published in

Misc. Zool. p.30

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Chordata

class

Mammalia

order

Rodentia

family

Caviidae

genus

Cavia

Name

Synonyms

Anoemas Cuvier, 1829

Anoëma Cuvier, 1809

Cauia Storr, 1780

Cobaia Aymard, 1854

Cobaya Cuvier, 1817

Coïza Billberg, 1828

Mamcaviaus Herrera, 1899

Savia Blumenbach, 1795

Scavia Blumenbach, 1797

Homonyms

Cavia Pallas, 1766

Cavia Sun, 1993

Common names

Cavies in language.

Guinea Pigs in language.

guinea pig in English

guinea pigs in language.

guinea-pigs in language.

Bibliographic References

1. Misc. Zool.
2. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
3. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
4. SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997
5. SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB
6. Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
7. Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
8. Wilson, Don E., T. E. Lacher Jr., and R. A. Mittermeier, eds., 2016: null. Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 6: Lagomorphs and Rodents I. 987.
9. Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207.
10. Woods, Charles A., and C. William Kilpatrick / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: Infraorder Hystricognathi Brandt, 1855. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2. 1538-1600.
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