Pacarana
Dinomys branickii
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Mammals
The pacarana is a rare and slow-moving hystricognath rodent indigenous to South America. Native Tupi people call it the pacarana because it is superficially similar to the paca, a different rodent which is not in the same family. The pacarana has a chunky body and is large for a rodent, weighing up to 15 kg (33 lb) and measuring up to 79 cm in length, not including the thick, furry tail.
Classification
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Dinomyidae
- Genus
- Dinomys