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Cavia porcellus in life
In life — Domestic Guinea Pig, photographed by an iNaturalist observer, not this specimen. (c) Kacper Aleksander, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

Cavia porcellus

Domestic Guinea Pig

As recorded: Cavia porcellus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Animalia › Chordata › Mammalia › Rodentia › Caviidae

Collected by
K Minami & K LaiK. Lai →K. Minami →
Locality
Honolulu, Nuuanu Valley, (395 and 381 Puiwa Road)
Island
Oʻahu
Region
United States
Coordinates
21.3325, -157.8340
Identified by
K Minami, Plant Quarantine BranchPlant Quarantine Branch →K. Minami →
Record type
Preserved specimen
8 Bishop specimens of Cavia porcellusSpecies page ›

Where it was collected

Cite this specimen

Cavia porcellus. BPBM 185256. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. GBIF occurrence 1090353950. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/vz/185256.

Record sources

Data-quality notes from GBIF

  • Type status not recognized

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