Myocastor coypus (Molina, 1782)

Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 771-806 : 806

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scientific name	Myocastor coypus (Molina, 1782)
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Myocastor coypus (Molina, 1782) View in CoL . Sagg. Stor. Nat. Chile, p. 287.

TYPE LOCALITY: Chile, Santiago Prov., Rio Maipo .

DISTRIBUTION: S Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile.

STATUS: Common.

SYNONYMS: albomaculatus, bonariensis, castoroides, chilensis, dorsalis , melanops, popelairi, santacruzae.

COMMENTS: Widely introduced into North America, Europe, N Asia, and E Africa. The common name coypu is preferable to nutria, since nutria in Spanish means otter. The species and subspecies were reviewed by Woods et al. (1992, Mammalian Species, 398).