Lagostomus

Lagostomus is a South American genus of rodents in the family Chinchillidae. It contains a single living species, the plains viscacha, and it is the only Holocene genus in the subfamily Lagostominae. It probably only has one extant species; the taxa Lagostomus crassus is probably not valid.^[3]

Lagostomus
Plains viscacha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Chinchillidae
Subfamily:	Lagostominae
Genus:	Lagostomus Brookes, 1828
Type species
Lagostomus trichodactylus Brookes, 1828 (= Dipus maximus Desmarest, 1817)
Species
†Lagostomus crassus? Lagostomus maximus †Lagostomus telenkechanum[1]
Synonyms
Viscacia (Rengger, 1830)[2]