Huallaga Spiny Rat

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Huallaga Spiny Rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Genus: Proechimys
Species: P. brevicauda
Binomial name
Proechimys brevicauda
(Gunther, 1877)

The Huallaga Spiny Rat, Proechimys brevicauda, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Peru.

[edit] References

  • Infonatura
  • Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. Pp 1538-1600 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
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