Chinchilla brevicaudata

– Critically Endangered

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

RODENTIA

Family:

CHINCHILLIDAE

Scientific Name:

Chinchilla brevicaudata

Species Authority:

Waterhouse, 1848

Common Name/s:

English	—	SHORT-TAILED CHINCHILLA
French	—	CHINCHILLA À QUEUE COURTE
Spanish	—	CHINCHILLA DE COLA CORTA

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

CR A1cd ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Pearson, O.

History:

1982	-	Indeterminate (Thornback and Jenkins 1982)
1986	-	Indeterminate (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1988	-	Indeterminate (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Indeterminate (IUCN 1990)
1994	-	Indeterminate (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range

Countries:

Native:

Argentina; Bolivia; Chile

Possibly extinct regionally:

Peru

Population

Population Trend:

Habitat and Ecology

Habitat and Ecology:

Lives in burrows or rocky crevices (Nowak 1999).

System:

Terrestrial

List of Habitats:

6	Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs, mountain peaks)

Threats

List of Threats:

1.3.3	Habitat Loss/Degradation - Extraction - Wood (ongoing)
1.3.4	Habitat Loss/Degradation - Extraction - Non-woody vegetation collection (ongoing)
3.4	Harvesting (hunting/gathering) - Materials (ongoing)
10.5	Human disturbance - Fire (ongoing)

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Thornback, J. and Jenkins, M. 1982. The IUCN Mammal Red Data Book. Part 1: Threatened mammalian taxa of the Americas and the Australasian zoogeographic region (excluding Cetacea). IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Citation:	Pearson, O. 1996. Chinchilla brevicaudata. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 06 September 2008.
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