Cavia anolaimae

Cavia anolaimae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Caviidae
Genus:	Cavia
Species:	C. anolaimae
Binomial name
Cavia anolaimae J. A. Allen, 1916
Synonyms
C. porcellus anolaimae C. aperea anolaimae C. aperea guianae

Cavia anolaimae is a guinea pig species from South America. It is found in Colombia near Bogotá. It is believed to be a feral offshoot of the domestic guinea pig, Cavia porcellus, and is often treated as a synonym of C. porcellus, but Zúñiga et al. (2002), based on morphologic characters, recognized them as diferent species. According the molecular analysis of Dunnum and Salazar (2014) C. anolaimae is a subspecies of Cavia aperea, C. aperea anolaimae, and a possible synonymous of C. a. guianae .

References

• Woods C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi pp. 1538-1600 in D. E. Wilson and M. A. Reeder, eds. Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, p. 1553.
• Nowak, Ronald M. (1999). Walker's Mammals of the World (6th ed.). pp. 1667–1669. ISBN 0-8018-5789-9.
• Infonatura
• Zúñiga, H.; Pinto-Nolla, M.; Hernández-Camacho, J.I. & Torres-Martínez, O.M. 2002. "Revisión taxonómica de las especies del género Cavia (Rodentia: Caviidae) en Colombia"; Acta Zoológica Mexicana 87: 111-123.
• Donnum, Jonathan L. & Salazar-Bravo, Jorge. 2014. "Molecular systematics, taxonomy and biogeography of the genus Cavia (Rodentia: Caviidae)"; Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 48(4): 376-388.