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Octodon - LoveToKnow 1911 (68 words) |
 | OCTODON, the generic name for a small South American rodent mammal (Octodon degus) locally known as the degu. |
| It is the type of the family Octodontidae, the members of which - collectively termed octodonts - are exclusively Central and South American. |
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Comparative Placentation (3451 words) |
| Biological background: Octodon degus is one of the smallest South American hystricognath rodents (Figure 1) and lives in rocky habitat and bush habitat in areas of medium high elevation (up to 1,200 m) native to Chile. |
| Octodon is reported as one of the most common mammals of central Chile with densities of about 40 to 80 individuals per hectare (Nowak, 1999). |
| Octodon degus possesses a diploid number of 2N = 58 with a genome size of 8.6 picograms (Honeycutt et al., 2003; Fernandez, 1968). |
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