Black-tailed Hairy Dwarf Porcupine

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iBlack-tailed Hairy Dwarf Porcupine
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Erethizontidae
Genus: Sphiggurus
Species: S. melanurus
Binomial name
Sphiggurus melanurus
(Wagner, 1842)

The Black-tailed Hairy Dwarf Porcupine, Sphiggurus melanurus, is a South American porcupine species from the Erethizontidae family. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guyana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.


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