the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Hystricomorpha (porcupine or guinea-pig) > [noun] > family Chinchillidae (chinchilla) > genus Lagostomus (viscacha) (3)
One or other of two large burrowing rodents of South America, related to the chinchilla. The Lagostomus trichodactylus of the southern Argentinian…
A species of the Chinchillidæ, a burrowing rodent of South America.