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:	SHORT-TAILED CHINCHILLA (Eng) CHINCHILLA À QUEUE COURTE (Fre) CHINCHILLA DE COLA CORTA (Spa)

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)

Countries:

Native:

Argentina; Bolivia; Chile

Possibly extinct regionally:

Peru

Population Trend:

Habitat and Ecology:	Lives in burrows or rocky crevices (Nowak 1999).
System:	Terrestrial

Citation:	Pearson, O. 1996. Chinchilla brevicaudata. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 July 2008.
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