Dark-caped Atlantic spiny rat

Dark-caped Atlantic spiny-rat
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Subfamily: Euryzygomatomyinae
Genus: Trinomys
Species:
T. mirapitanga
Binomial name
Trinomys mirapitanga
Lara, Patton and Hingst-Zaher, 2002

The dark-caped Atlantic spiny rat or Mirapitanga spiny rat (Trinomys mirapitanga), is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil.

Also known as the Pau Brazil Spiny Rat, it is known only from specimens found at two locations on the southern Bahia coast, the Pau-Brasil Ecological Station and the Fazenda São João.[2]

  1. ^ Moura, R.; Patterson, B. (2016). "Trinomys mirapitanga". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T136305A22211934. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T136305A22211934.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Patton, James L. (2015-03-09), Mammals of South America, Volume 2: Rodents, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-16957-6, retrieved 2016-05-28