| Rock cavy | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Caviidae |
| Genus: | Kerodon |
| Species: | K. rupestris
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| Binomial name | |
| Kerodon rupestris (Wied-Neuwied, 1820)
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The rock cavy or mocó (Kerodon rupestris) is a cavy species endemic to eastern Brazil which has also been introduced to the Atlantic island of Fernando de Noronha.[2]: 30
The rock cavy is called mocó in Brazilian Portuguese, and koriko pexerumen in the Xukuru language of Pernambuco, Brazil.[3]
- ^ Catzeflis, F.; Patton J.; Percequillo, A.; Weksler, M. (2016). "Kerodon rupestris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T10988A22190269. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T10988A22190269.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
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GaspariniEtal2007was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Lapenda, Geraldo Calábria (1962). "O dialecto Xucuru". Doxa. Departamento de Cultura do Diretório Acadêmico da Faculdade de Filosofia de Pernambuco. Revista Oficial. Vol. ano X. Universidade do Recife. pp. 11–23.