Chinchilla lanigera

– Vulnerable

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

RODENTIA

Family:

CHINCHILLIDAE

Scientific Name:

Chinchilla lanigera

Species Authority:

(Molina, 1782)

Common Name/s:

English	—	CHINCHILLA, LONG-TAILED CHINCHILLA
French	—	CHINCHILLA À LONGUE QUEUE
Spanish	—	CHINCHILLA COSTINA, CHINCHILLA DE COLA LARGA

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

VU A1cd ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Contreras, L.

History:

1965	-	"Very rare and believed to be decreasing in numbers" (Scott 1965)
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:

Chile

Uncertain presence and origin:

Argentina

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:

3.4	Harvesting (hunting/gathering) - Materials (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.

Scott, P. (ed.) 1965. Section XIII. Preliminary List of Rare Mammals and Birds. In: The Launching of a New Ark, pp. 15–207. First Report of the President and Trustees of the World Wildlife Fund. An International Foundation for saving the world's wildlife and wild places 1961–1964. Collins, London.

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:	Contreras, L. 1996. Chinchilla lanigera. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 28 August 2008.
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