Microcavia (mountain cavies) is a genus of rodents in the family Caviidae. They are unique within their family in that their premolar teeth do not grow and replace the original deciduous cheek teeth until after the animal is born; in other genera this occurs in the womb.
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Microcavia (mountain cavies) is a genus of rodents in the family Caviidae. They are unique within their family in that their premolar teeth do not grow and replace the original deciduous cheek teeth until after the animal is born; in other genera this occurs in the womb.
It contains six extant species: Southern mountain cavy, M. australis Jayat's mountain cavy, M. jayat Thomas's mountain cavy, M. maenas Andean mountain cavy, M. niata Shipton's mountain cavy, M. shiptoni Sorojchi mountain cavy, M. sorojchi
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