Andean porcupine

Andean porcupine
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Erethizontidae
Genus: Coendou
Species: C. quichua
Binomial name
Coendou quichua
Thomas, 1899

The Andean porcupine (Coendou quichua) is a species of rodent in the family Erethizontidae. It is known from the Andes of Ecuador as well as from the Cordillera Oriental of northeastern Colombia near San Vicente de Chucurí.[1] Although it is morphologically distinctive, it has sometimes been described as a subspecies of C. bicolor.[2][3] The species is little known, but is probably arboreal, nocturnal and solitary like its relatives.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Tirira, D., Boada, C. & Delgado, C. (2008). Coendou quichua. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 18 August 2009.
  2. ^ Woods, Charles A.; Kilpatrick, C. William (16 November 2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi (pp. 1538-1600)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 1547. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400099. 
  3. ^ Voss, R. S. (2003-12-09). "A New Species of Thomasomys (Rodentia: Muridae) from Eastern Ecuador, with Remarks on Mammalian Diversity and Biogeography in the Cordillera Oriental". American Museum Novitates (American Museum of Natural History) 3421: 1–47. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2003)421<0001:ANSOTR>2.0.CO;2. http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/2850/1/N3421.pdf. Retrieved 2009-08-07.