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  • Other species include giant armadillo Priodontes maximuss (EN), paca Cuniculus paca and prehensile-tailed porcupine Coendou bicolor.

    Rio Abiseo National Park, Peru 2008

  • Some of the mammals are jaguar (Felis onca), paca (Cuniculus paca), collared peccary (Tayassu tajacu), red howler monkey (Alouatta seniculus seniculus), and various species of Chiropterans.

    Guajira-Barranquilla xeric scrub 2008

  • Incidentally, the genus Cuniculus Brisson 1762 is the same animal as that more often called Agouti Lacépède 1799.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Dwarf brockets were there (brockets Mazama are a group of small-bodied deer known from Mexico and South America), as were coro-coros (also called bamboo rats Dactylomys, coro-coros are arboreal members of Echimyidae), Mountain pacas Cuniculus taczonowskii*, AND an abrocomid that Eaton recognized as a new species.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • For 30 or 40 million years the wild species Oryctolagus Cuniculus lived only in the area that today is Spain.

    14 Domestic Rabbit 1991

  • Investigaciones preliminares sobre la reproduccion, comportamiento, alimentacion y manego del tepezcuinte (Cuniculus paca, Brisson) en cautiverio.

    Chapter 11 1991

  • Porto Santo is a small island, not far from Madeira, on which a Portuguese navigator, named Zarco, let loose, somewhere about the year 1420, a doe and a recently born litter of rabbits, which we may feel quite sure belonged to one of those domestic breeds which have all been derived from the wild rabbit of Europe known to zoologists as _Lepus Cuniculus_.

    Science and Morals and Other Essays Bertram Coghill Alan Windle 1893

  • Cuniculus, for instance, was at one time blanketed with red, which still peeks through the top layer of white.

    Broward-Palm Beach New Times | Complete Issue 2010

  • The winning team was the "Cuniculus Terminators" whose 12-man team blasted 978 cuddly little bunnies over Easter weekend.

    Deadspin 2009

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