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Octodon
Sign in to saveOctodon, from Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ), meaning "eight", and ὀδούς (odoús), meaning "tooth", is a genus of octodontid rodents native to South America, in particular in the Chilean Andes. The best-known member is the common degu, O. degus, which is kept as a pet in various countries. Two of the four species of degus are nocturnal.
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Vinony's link graph records 67 inbound references to Octodon, and connects out to Octodon pacificus, genus and Octodon degus.
It is catalogued under topics including Octodon, Rodent genera and Taxa named by Edward Turner Bennett.
Vinony links it to 24 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 19
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Octodontidae
- Collections
- NYSM, USNM, UAZ, NY, AMNH, ROM
- Recorded in
- United States, Locality Unknown, Niger, Argentina, Unknown, Captive, Chile, Guinea, Chili
Research
451 papers- Octodon degus: a natural model of multimorbidity for ageing research.Ageing research reviews · 2020
- Octodon degus: a model for the cognitive impairment associated with Alzheimer's disease.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2013
- Octodon degus. A useful animal model for social-affective neuroscience research: basic description of separation distress, social attachments and play.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2011
- Cortisol resistance in the degu (Octodon degus).Steroids · 2022
- Stress, sleep, and sex: A review of endocrinological research in Octodon degus.General and comparative endocrinology · 2019
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Octodontidae
- Image
- Octodon degus 1.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- time period
- Holocene
- taxon name
- Octodon
- Commons category
- Octodon
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Octodon
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Classification
- Taxonomy
- Distribution
- Description
- Lifestyle
- Conservation status
- References
- External links
Octodon, from Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ), meaning "eight", and ὀδούς (odoús), meaning "tooth", is a genus of octodontid rodents native to South America, in particular in the Chilean Andes. The best-known member is the common degu, O. degus, which is kept as a pet in various countries. Two of the four species of degus are nocturnal.
== Classification == This genus was first described in 1832 by the British zoologist Edward Turner Bennett.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Octodon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.