#0366 · 🦊 mammals
Mountain Viscacha
🇳🇱 Peruviaanse Haasmuis ·Lagidium viscacia
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Andres Puiggros · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Benjamin Gallardo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Sol Lombardo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Darío De la Fuente · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © anuralitoria · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © rdsage · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Juan Rodolfo Lillo Lobos · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © feelthewildtusk · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Fernando Olea · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The southern viscacha ( Lagidium viscacia ) is a species of viscacha, a rodent in the family Chinchillidae found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. It is a colonial animal living in small groups in rocky mountain areas. It has long ears and hind legs and resembles a rabbit in appearance apart from its long, bushy tail.
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.
- 3,644 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Juan Ignacio Molina in 1782 (244 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Mountain Viscacha
- Nederlands
- Peruviaanse Haasmuis
- scientific name
- Lagidium viscacia
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Rodentia
- family
- Chinchillidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 3,644
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1782 by Juan Ignacio Molina
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 852334, Wikidata Q1761602, GBIF 2439834, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.