#0464 · 🦊 mammals
Azara's Agouti
🇳🇱 Azara's Agoeti ·Dasyprocta azarae
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what is it?
Azara's agouti ( Dasyprocta azarae ) is a South American agouti species from the family Dasyproctidae. Found in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, it is named after Spanish naturalist Félix de Azara. The population is unknown and may have gone locally extinct in some areas due to hunting; it is listed as vulnerable in Argentina.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 2,147 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Hinrich Lichtenstein in 1823 (203 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Azara's Agouti
- Nederlands
- Azara's Agoeti
- scientific name
- Dasyprocta azarae
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Rodentia
- family
- Dasyproctidae
- IUCN Red List
- DD · data deficient
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 2,147
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1823 by Hinrich Lichtenstein
IUCN in Dutch: onvoldoende gegevens. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Dasyproctidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 43721, Wikidata Q643741, GBIF 2437582, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.