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Coypu

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Coypu or Nutria Temporal range: LatePliocene – Recent

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Myocastoridae
Genus:	Myocastor Kerr, 1792

Thecoypu (ornutria,Myocastor coypus) is a large, plant-eating,rodent which lives inwetlands.^[1] The nutria first came from South America includingArgentina,Bolivia,Brazil,Paraguay,Chile, andUruguay.^[1] Animals were taken toLouisiana in the 1930s to be farmed for their fur. Some of these animals escaped and are now living in the Louisiana coastal wetlands. They have become a pest and have damaged the environment.^[1]

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↑^1.0^1.1^1.2"Home - Nutria.com".nutria.com. Archived fromthe original on 1 September 2010. Retrieved17 June 2010.

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