| Black Dwarf Porcupine | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Erethizontidae |
| Genus: | Coendou |
| Species: | C. nycthemera |
| Binomial name | |
| Coendou nycthemera (Olfers, 1818) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Coendou koopmani Handley & Pine, 1992 |
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The Black Dwarf Porcupine, also known as Koopman's Porcupine, Coendou nycthemera, is a porcupine species from the New World porcupine family endemic to northern Brazil. It occurs in Amazonia east of the Rio Madeira and south of the Amazon River. It was described as Coendou koopmani by Charles O. Handley, Jr. and Ronald H. Pine in 1992, but was subsequently found to be identical to a species described in 1818.