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A baby Guinea pig🐭

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SpeciesRodentiaCaviidae
Mammals

🐭Guinea pig

Cavia porcellus (Linnaeus, 1758)

モルモット（英: guinea pig、蘭: cavia、学名: Cavia porcellus）は、テンジクネズミ属に属する齧歯類の1種である。南米に生息するテンジクネズミ科の野生種が古代インディオのもとで食肉用に家畜化された種である。現在では、主に医学・生物学分野の実験動物として広く利用されている。また、温和で比較的飼いやすいため、愛玩用としても養殖されている。

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vs you
≈ 1/85th of your weight
Also called
Domesticated Guinea Pig
Conservation status
NENot evaluated

IUCN Red List assessment, 2012.

Key measurements
Body mass
0.73 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
12 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Guinea pig

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.73 kg
AnAge
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data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Maximum lifespan
12 years
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data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
68 days
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data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 4
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data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Volume l
0.7 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Guinea pig yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familyCaviidae
  6. ›genusCavia
  7. ›speciesCavia porcellus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderRodents · Rodentia
  3. familyCaviidae
  4. genusCavia
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderEuarchontoglires
  11. orderRodents · Rodentia
  12. suborderHystricomorpha
  13. familyCaviidae
  14. genusCavia
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Closest relative on this site
🐹 Capybara — last shared an ancestor ≈ 17 million years ago.
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In other languages
家养豚鼠 (zh), kawia domowa (pl), Cavia porcellus (es), tengerimalac (hu), marsvin (sv), كابياء خنزيرية (ar) … and 28 more languages
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