What is Coypu?
{{Taxobox | name = Coypu or Nutria | fossil_range = Late [[Pliocene]] – Recent | image = Nutria-orange.JPG | image_width = 240px | image_caption = | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | ordo = [[Rodent]]ia | superfamilia = | familia = '''[[Myocastoridae]]''' | subfamilia = | tribus = | genus = '''''Myocastor''''' | genus_authority = [[Robert Kerr (writer)|Kerr]], 1792 }} The '''coypu''' (or '''nutria''', ''Myocastor coypus'') is a large, plant-eating, [[rodent]] which lives in [[wetland]]s.<ref name=nutria>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nutria.com/site.php |title=Home - Nutria.com |work=nutria.com |access-date=17 June 2010 |archive-date=1 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100901081634/http://www.nutria.com/site.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> The nutria first came from South America including [[Argentina]], [[Bolivia]], [[Brazil]], [[Paraguay]], [[Chile]], and [[Uruguay]].<ref name=nutria/> Animals were taken to [[Louisiana]] 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.<ref name=nutria/> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Rodents]] [[Category:Mammals of South America]] {{biology-stub}}