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:	CHINCHILLA (Eng) LONG-TAILED CHINCHILLA (Eng) CHINCHILLA À LONGUE QUEUE (Fre) CHINCHILLA COSTINA (Spa) CHINCHILLA DE COLA LARGA (Spa)

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)

Countries:

Native:

Chile

Uncertain presence and origin:

Argentina

Population Trend:

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

Citation:	Contreras, L. 1996. Chinchilla lanigera. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 06 July 2008.
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