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References

• 1. IUCN Red List (November, 2008) http://www.iucnredlist.org
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• Anderson, S. and J.K. Jones, Jr. 1984. Orders and Families of REcent Mammals of the World. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
• Baillie, J. and B. Groombridge. 1996. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. Kelvyn Press, USA
• Burton, John A. 1987. Rare Mammals of the World. The Stephen Greene Press, Lexington, Massachusetts.
• Grzimek, Bernhard. 1975. Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co, London.
• Matthews, Leonard H. 1971. The Life of Mammals. Volume 2. Universe Books, New York.
• Parker, S.P. 1990 Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals. Volume 3. McGraw-Hill Publishing co., New York.
• Richard Weigl (2005) Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World. Kleine Senckenberg-Reihe 48: Stuttgart.
• White, T.G. and M.S. Alberico. 1992. Mammalian Species #410. Published by the American Society of Mammalogists.
• Wilson, D.E., and D.M. Reeder. 1993. Mammal Species of the World. Second Edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London
• Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. 1993. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207
• Woods, Charles A., and C. William Kilpatrick / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. 2005. Infraorder Hystricognathi Brandt, 1855. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2. 1538-1600