Cavia tschudii Fitzinger, 1857 . Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, p. 154.

TYPE LOCALITY: Peru, lea Dept., Ica .

DISTRIBUTION: Peru, S Bolivia, NW Argentina, N Chile.

STATUS: Common.

SYNONYMS: arequipae, atahualpae; cutleri Tschudi, 1844, festina, osgoodi, pallidior, sodalis, stolida, umbrata.

COMMENTS: Formerly included in aperea by Hiickinghaus (1961:57); but see Cabrera (1961:579) and Pine et al. (1979:361), who considered tschudii a distinct species. Includes stolida (Cabrera, 1961:579), but also see Hiickinghaus (1961:58), who considered stolida a distinct species.