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guinea pig

domesticated rodent from South America
Class type of: domesticated mammal Q79803

Facts

18 properties
Instance of
taxon, model organism[3]
Subclass of
domesticated mammal
Described by source
Otto's encyclopedia, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Zedler, Großes vollständiges Universallexicon aller Wissenschaften und Künste, The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge, New Encyclopedic Dictionary[7][8][9][10][11]
Diel cycle
crepuscular
Gestation period
+72[25]
Habitat
Peru[24]
Has characteristic
viviparity[14]
Heart rate
+250[26]
Life expectancy
+5[22]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Invasion Biology
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[27]
Original combination
Mus porcellus[12]
Parent taxon
Guinea pig[5]
Taxon common name
Domesticated Guinea Pig, guinea pig, marsu, Cavy, Hausmeerschweinchen, cobaya, kawia domowa[15][16][17][18][19][20][21]
Taxon name
Cavia porcellus[6]
Taxon rank
species[4]
Taxon synonym
Cavia cobaya[13]
Time period
Holocene[23]
🏷️ Also known as
en guinea-pig en domestic guinea pig en guinea pig en Cavia porcellus en domesticated guinea pig en domestic cavy ar كابياء خنزيرية ar خنزير غينيا ar الوبر ar أرنب رومي ar الكافي ar أرنب الجبل ar أرنب هندي cs morče cs morče domácí cs Cavia aperea f. porcellus da marsvin de Meerschweinchen de Hausmeerschweinchen de Cavia porcellus
🔖 Identifiers · 77
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85057793
OpenAlex ID
C2778815084
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Cochon d'Inde (Cavia porcellus) (2).jpg ↗
ADW taxon ID
Cavia_porcellus
ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID
1001195
Anarâš aavis topic ID
marsu
AnimalBase ID
35821
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/3240
BBC Things ID
8581d27e-6620-4846-a830-b9dba3e3f8c6
BNCF Thesaurus ID
44596
BOLD Systems taxon ID
26233
Baidu Tieba name
豚鼠, 荷兰猪
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Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
13178214c
CalPhotos taxon ID
Cavia+porcellus
Catalogue of Life ID
RY7S
DeCS ID
6320
Dimensions.guide ID
guinea-pig-cavy
EASIN ID
R02961
EBiodiversity ID
43873
EPPO Code
CAVIPO
Elhuyar ZTH ID
019991
Encyclopedia of Life ID
326924
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
animal/guinea-pig
Exact match
wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu
FAO 2007 genetic resource ID
Guinea Pig
Fossilworks taxon ID
233628
Freebase ID
/m/0gy7v
GBIF taxon ID
5219702
Global Invasive Species Database ID
1874
Global Species ID
925837
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
conill-porqui
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0171134
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
marsvin
Harper's tag
guinea-pigs
IMDb keyword
guinea-pig
INaturalist taxon ID
119405
IRMNG ID
10223339
ITIS TSN
584713
Interlingual Index ID
i47997
Invasive Species Compendium Datasheet ID
89562
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
guinea-pigs
KBpedia ID
GuineaPig
Lex ID
Marsvin
Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID
sj2021051214
Lur Encyclopedic Dictionary ID
00188/eu_a_1884/a1884
MSW ID
13400181
MeSH descriptor ID
D006168
MeSH tree code
B01.050.150.900.649.313.992.550
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2778815084
NALT ID
23179
NCBI taxonomy ID
10141, 10144
NDL Authority ID
00942111
NL CR AUT ID
ph122990
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007543299105171
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX528438
Observation.org taxon ID
82290
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
159389
Open Tree of Life ID
744000, 744011
Paleobiology Database taxon ID
233628
Postimees topic ID
30991
Quora topic ID
Guinea-Pigs-Pet, Guinea-Pigs
SVKKL authority ID
0211605-morcata
Sequenced genome URL
www.dnazoo.org, www.ensembl.org
Topic's main category
Category:Cavia porcellus
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10648552
UBio ID
106437
UMLS CUI
C0085979, C0999699, C0999701
UNII
XJI597GH9P
UNSPSC code
10101513
Vikidia article ID
fr:Cochon_d'Inde
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
02367325-n
Xeno-canto species ID
Cavia-porcellus
YSA ID
Y105318
YSO ID
17459
Yale LUX ID
concept/2839f37b-1593-44ae-956e-c72084240d81
Yle topic ID
18-215390
Zhihu topic ID
19619310

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🔗 Connections
← Species kept 9
Los Angeles Zoo, National Zoo of Malaysia, Karlsruhe Zoo, Honolulu Zoo, Nashville Zoo at Grassmere, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, Baton Rouge Zoo, Dudley Zoo +1 more
Instance of 2
taxon, model organism
← Breed belongs to taxon 2
Skinny pig, Abyssinian guinea pig
Described by source 1
Zedler, Großes vollständiges Universallexicon aller Wissenschaften und Künste
Diel cycle 1
crepuscular
Habitat 1
Peru
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Parent taxon 1
Guinea pig
Taxon rank 1
species
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Summary

guinea pig is a taxon[1]. It is a type of domesticated mammal[2].

Related Entities

Honolulu Zoo Peru

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  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] ↑ . Wilson & Reeder's Mammal Species of the World. wikidata.org.
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  14. [15] ↑ . Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names. wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] ↑ . Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names. wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . sabencia.net. sabencia.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . Resting Heart Rates. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8d ago · Astirmays · 2026-10-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → domesticated mammal
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Subclass of: domesticated mammal"
  2. 21w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0211605-morcata
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: 0211605-morcata, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  3. 21w ago · Jfpierce · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has characteristic → viviparity
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has characteristic: viviparity"
  4. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Guinea pig
    On focus list of Wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Instance of → taxon, model organism
    Taxon synonym → Cavia cobaya
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|10 */ YSO ID: 17459, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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