The Brazilian yellow-toothed cavy (''Galea flavidens'') is a

cavy Caviidae, the cavy family, is composed of rodents native to South America and includes the domestic guinea pig, wild cavies, and the largest living rodent, the capybara. They are found across South America in open areas from moist savanna to t ...

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

from

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...

. It is found in

Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...

. ''Galea flavidens'' is a yellow-toothed-cavy. ''G. flavidens'' lives in Brazil. This species is listed by the IUCN as Least Concern, in spite of the fact that there have been only few observations. Its habitat is widespread and the animal highly migratory, therefore there is no immediate threat to the population as a whole. As nearly with any other species, human expansion may become a problem in the near future. ''G. flavidens'' seem to be highly promiscuous, females mate regularly mate with multiple partners. In more than 90 percent of litters with more than one the littermates have more than one father.Clutton-Brock Tim and Mcauliffe Katherine. (2009). Female Mate Choice in Mammals. The Quarterly Review of Biology:The University of Chicago Press. 84(1). 3-27.

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Cavies Rodents of Brazil Endemic mammals of Brazil Mammals described in 1835 Taxa named by Johann Friedrich von Brandt {{rodent-stub