Stump-tailed Porcupine

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Stump-tailed Porcupine
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Erethizontidae Subfamily: Erethizontinae Genus: Echinoprocta Gray, 1865 Species: E. rufescens
Binomial name
Echinoprocta rufescens Gray, 1865

The Stump-tailed Porcupine (Echinoprocta rufescens) is a species of rodent in the Erethizontidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Echinoprocta. It is endemic to Colombia.

[edit] References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Echinoprocta rufescens. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
• 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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