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A young wild Chilean chinchilla (2006) A domesticated chinchilla Chinchilla lanigera is smaller—wild animals have body lengths up to 260 mm (10 in)—has more rounded ears—45 mm (1.8 in) in length)—and a longer tail than C. chinchilla; its tail is usually about a third the size of its body—up to 130 mm (5.1 in) compared to 100 mm (3.9 in) in C. chinchilla.
Mosaic chinchilla. The domestic chinchilla is descended from Chinchilla lanigera, the long-tailed Chinchilla. They are the more common one in the wild, as the other species, Chinchilla chinchilla, or short-tailed Chinchilla, has been hunted nearly to extinction. Therefore, domestic chinchillas have thinner bodies, longer tails and larger ears.
The forefeet have four toes while the hind feet have four small-clawed toes in Lagidium and Chinchilla but three large-clawed toes in Lagostomus, a digging species. Their dental formula is 1.0.1.3 1.0.1.3 and their incisors grow continually throughout their lives.
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Genus Chinchilla. Chinchilla chinchilla - Short-tailed chinchilla; Chinchilla lanigera - Long-tailed chinchilla; Genus Lagidium. Lagidium ahuacaense - Ecuadorean mountain viscacha; Lagidium peruanum - Northern viscacha; Lagidium viscacia - Southern viscacha; Lagidium wolffsohni - Wolffsohn's viscacha; Genus Lagostomus. Lagostomus crassus? (extinct)
A standard gray Chinchilla. Chinchillas have been used in research since the 1950s. They are popular pets, but require much care. The domestic chinchilla is descended from Chinchilla lanigera, the long-tailed Chinchilla, and so have thinner bodies, longer tails and larger ears. Wild chinchillas roam in herds, so domestic chinchillas also like ...
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Long-tailed chinchilla; S. Short-tailed chinchilla; T. That Pesky Rat This page was last edited on 3 January 2018, at 10:18 (UTC). Text is available under the ...