Mountain paca
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The mountain paca is a small burrow-dwelling rodent whose habitats are high altitude South American forests. Pacas are nocturnal, sedentary, and solitary animals with territorial tendencies. It eats m
Cuniculus taczanowskii
Jan Sztolcman
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Jan Stanisław Sztolcman was a Polish zoologist, ornithologist and collector naturalist who travelled extensively in South America. He was also a promoter of conservation and worked to prevent the Euro
Mountain paca
…Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cuniculidae Genus: Cuniculus Species: C. taczanowskii Binomial name Cuniculus taczanowskii (Stolzmann, 1885) Cuniculidae distribution. Cuniculus paca in red, Cuniculus taczanowskii in blue (brighter where range does not overlap C. paca). Synonyms Agouti…
Jan Sztolcman, Józef Siemiradzki and dog in Ecuador in 1883