Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat

Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Genus: Phyllomys
Species: P. nigrispinus
Binomial name
Phyllomys nigrispinus
(Wagner, 1842)

The black-spined Atlantic tree-rat, Phyllomys nigrispinus, is a South American spiny rat species in the family Echimyidae. It is found in southeastern Brazil, where it inhabits moist broadleaf forest and semideciduous forest in the Atlantic Forest region.[1] It is arboreal and is believed to build nests of leaves in trees.[1] Its karyotype has 2n=52.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Leite, Y. & Patterson, B. (2008). Phyllomys nigrispinus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 January 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. 1581. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400456.