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The lowland paca (''Cuniculus paca''), also known as the spotted paca, is a large rodent found in tropical and sub-tropical America, from East-Central Mexico to Northern Argentina. Introduced to Cuba, Bahamas, Jamaica and Hispaniola.〔Long, J. L. (2003). Introduced Mammals of the World: Their History, Distribution and Influence. Csiro Publishing, Collingwood, Australia. ISBN 9780643099166〕 It is called ''paca'' in most of its range, but ''tepezcuintle'' in most of Mexico and Central America, ''pisquinte'' in northern Costa Rica, ''jaleb'' in the Yucatán peninsula, ''conejo pintado'' in Panamá, ''guanta'' in Ecuador, ''majás'' or ''picuro'' in Peru, ''jochi pintado'' in Bolivia, and ''boruga''〔http://books.google.com/books?id=9r9E_HBDAF0C&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=paca+boruga&source=bl&ots=iJKf7_ZRwz&sig=85N_UMlVKN-zmNktvXgJiSEuq_o&hl=en&ei=LhGlTOGcOo6ssAOQ6tn-Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=paca%20boruga&f=false〕 or ''guardatinaja'' in Colombia. It is also known as the ''gibnut'' in Belize, where it is prized as a game animal, ''labba'' in Guyana, ''lapa'' in Venezuela, and ''lappe'' on the island of Trinidad. There is much confusion in the nomenclature of this and related species; see agouti. In particular, the popular term ''agouti'' or ''common agouti'' normally refers to species of the distinct ''Dasyprocta'' genus (such as the Central American agouti, ''Dasyprocta punctata''). Sometimes the word ''agouti'' is also used for a polyphyletic grouping uniting the families Cuniculidae and Dasyproctidae, which, besides the pacas and common agoutis, includes also the acouchis (''Myoprocta''). ''Cuniculus'' is the appropriate genus name instead of ''Agouti'' based on a 1998 ruling of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature as the Lowland Paca's genus. == Etymology == The word "paca" comes from a word in the Tupi language that designates the animal but also means "awaken, alert."〔http://www.fflch.usp.br/dlcv/tupi/vocabulario.htm〕〔FERREIRA, A. B. H. ''Novo Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa''. Segunda edição. Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira, 1986. p. 1 243〕 "Tepezcuintle" is of Nahuatl origin, meaning mountain dog: ''tepetl'' = mountain; ''itzquintli'' = dog.
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