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- Title
LA CHINCHILLA DE COLA LARGA NO ESTÁ EXTINTA EN EL NORTE DE CHILE: NUEVA COLONIA EN LA COSTA DE ANTOFAGASTA.
- Authors
Villarroel, Maximino; Jiménez, Jaime E.; Mella, Jorge E.; Peñaloza-García, Alejandro P.
- Abstract
We document a new record for Chinchilla lanigera, an endemic and threatened to extinction hystricomorph rodent that was considered extinct for the Antofagasta region, in northern Chile. This finding significantly increases the geographical distribution for this species, and it shifts the species' range 250 km to the north. It also represents a new lower altitudinal occurrence at only 73 m a.s.l., in an area close to the Pacific Ocean. The discovery of this new colony has several conservation and ecological implications for this species.
- Publication
Journal of Neotropical Mammalogy / Mastozoologia Neotropical, 2021, Vol 28, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0327-9383
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.31687/saremMN.21.28.1.0.32