Mouse-tailed Spiny Rat

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Mouse-tailed Spiny Rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Genus: Trinomys
Species: T. myosuros
Binomial name
Trinomys myosuros
(Lichtenstein, 1830)
Synonyms

Proechimys myosuros

The Mouse-tailed Spiny Rat, Trinomys myosuros, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil.

[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.