Brown Hairy Dwarf Porcupine

Brown Hairy Dwarf Porcupine
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Erethizontidae
Genus: Sphiggurus
Species: S. vestitus
Binomial name
Sphiggurus vestitus
Thomas, 1899

The Brown Hairy Dwarf Porcupine (Sphiggurus vestitus) is a species of rodent in the family Erethizontidae.[2] It is found in Colombia and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

References

  1. ^ Tirira, D., Boada, C., Weksler, M., Anderson, R. P. & Gómez-Laverde, M. (2008). Sphiggurus vestitus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 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.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400127.