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The pacarana, Dinomys branickii, is the only living member of the family Dinomyidae. This caviomorph rodent is known only from western South America in the Andes mountains from Colombia to southeastern Peru and western Bolivia [4]. Cabrera identifies Amable Maria in the department of Junin in Peru as the type locality. Cabrera and Yepes [5], as well as Walker [25], list the Andes of Ecuador and Brazil as additional countries where pacaranas are found. Hodge [16] identifies the Chanchamayo region of Peru as the origin of a specimen he observed in Lima. Anthony [3] describes a large specimen from La Candela, Huila, Colombia. Lonnberg [17] describes four specimens, acquired near Gualea, Ecuador, at elevations of from 5,000 to 6,500 feet, on the eastern slopes of the Andes. Moojen [18], gives the Rio Pauini at the junction of the Purus river as a Brazilian location for pacarana.
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Meritt, D.A. (1984). The Pacarana, Dinomys branickii . In: Ryder, O.A., Byrd, M.L. (eds) One Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61749-2_17
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