Tuft-tailed Spiny Tree Rat

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Tuft-tailed Spiny Tree Rat
Fossil range: Recent
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Subfamily: Eumysopinae
Genus: Lonchothrix
Thomas, 1920
Species: L. emiliae
Binomial name
Lonchothrix emiliae
Thomas, 1920

The Tuft-tailed Spiny Tree Rat, Lonchothrix emiliae, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil. It is the only species in the genus Lonchothrix.

[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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