Stiff-spine spiny rat

Stiff-spine spiny-rat
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Subfamily: Echimyinae
Tribe: Myocastorini
Genus: Proechimys
Species:
P. echinothrix
Binomial name
Proechimys echinothrix
da Silva, 1998

The stiff-spine spiny-rat (Proechimys echinothrix) or Tefe spiny rat, is a spiny rat species[2] found in Brazil and Colombia.

  1. ^ Patton, J.; Percequillo, A. (2016). "Proechimys echinothrix". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T29463A22207611. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T29463A22207611.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. ^ Da Silva, Maria Nazareth F. (1998). "Four New species of spiny rats of the genus Proechimys (Rodentia : Echimyidae) from the Western Amazon of Brazil". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 111: 436–471. ISSN 0006-324X.