mountain degu

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Octodontomys gliroides
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mountain degu (plural mountain degus)

  1. A South American rodent, Octodontomys gliroides, related to the degus.
    • 1990 [1936], James Frank Colyer (original author), A. E. W. Miles, Caroline Grigson (editors), Colyer's Variations and Diseases of the Teeth of Animals, 2003, Revised Edition, page 317,
      In Octodontomys gliroides (mountain degu), the buccal surfaces of the upper cheek teeth are progressively turned more and more distally from the distal to the mesial ends of the arches, with P4 being nearly transverse to the line of the arch (Fig. 14.3).

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