Elias' Atlantic Spiny-rat

Elias' Atlantic Spiny-rat
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Echimyidae
Genus:	Trinomys
Species:	T. eliasi
Binomial name
*Trinomys eliasi* (Pessoa & Dos Reis, 1993)

Elias' Atlantic Spiny-rat, Trinomys eliasi, or Rio de Janeiro Spiny Rat, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil.

References

^ Brito, D., Leite, Y. & Patterson, B. (2008). Trinomys eliasi. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 January 2009.

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.

Extant species of family Echimyidae (Spiny rats)

Kingdom: Animalia · Phylum: Chordata · Class: Mammalia · Order: Rodentia · Suborder: Hystricomorpha · Infraorder: Hystricognathi · Parvorder: Caviomorpha

Dactylomyinae

Dactylomys	Bolivian Bamboo Rat (D. boliviensis) · Amazon Bamboo Rat (D. dactylinus) · Montane Bamboo Rat (D. peruanus)

Kannabateomys	Atlantic Bamboo Rat (K. amblyonyx)

Olallamys	White-tailed Olalla Rat (O. albicauda) · Greedy Olalla Rat (O. edax)

Echimyinae

Callistomys	Painted Tree-rat (C. pictus)

Diplomys	Colombian Soft-furred Spiny-rat (D. caniceps) · Rufous Soft-furred Spiny-rat (D. labilis) · Red Crested Soft-furred Spiny-rat (D. rufodorsalis)

Echimys	White-faced Spiny Tree-rat (E. chrysurus) · Dark Spiny Tree-rat (E. saturnus) · Speckled Spiny Tree-rat (E. semivillosus)

Isothrix	Yellow-crowned Brush-tailed Rat (I. bistriata) · Rio Negro Brush-tailed Rat (I. negrensis) · Plain Brush-tailed Rat (I. pagurus) · Sinnamary Brush-tailed Rat (I. sinnamariensis)

Makalata	Red-nosed Armored Tree-rat (M. didelphoides) · Giant Armored Tree-rat (M. grandis) · Long-tailed Armored Tree-rat (M. macrura) · Dark Armored Tree Rat (M. obscura) · Bare-tailed Armored Tree-rat (M. occasius) · Peruvian Armored Tree-rat (M. rhipidura)

Phyllomys	Golden Atlantic Tree-rat (P. blainvillii) · Orange-brown Atlantic Tree-rat (P. brasiliensis) · Drab Atlantic Tree-rat (P. dasythrix) · Kerr's Atlantic Tree-rat (P. kerri) · Pallid Atlantic Tree-rat (P. lamarum) · Lund's Atlantic Tree-rat (P. lundi) · Mantiqueira Atlantic Tree-rat (P. mantiqueirensis) · Long-furred Atlantic Tree-rat (P. medius) · Blacked-spined Atlantic Tree-rat (P. nigrispinus) · Rusty-sided Atlantic Tree-rat (P. pattoni) · Giant Atlantic Tree-rat (P. thomasi) · Short-furred Atlantic Tree-rat (P. unicolor)

Eumysopinae

Carterodon	Owl's Spiny Rat (C. sulcidens)

Clyomys	Bishop's Fossorial Spiny Rat (C. bishopi) · Broad-headed Spiny Rat (C. laticeps)

Euryzygomatomys	Brandt's Guiara (E. guiara) · Fischer's Guiara (E. spinosus)

Hoplomys	Armored Rat (H. gymnurus)

Lonchothrix	Tuft-tailed Spiny Tree Rat (L. emiliae)

Mesomys	Ferreira's Spiny Tree-rat (M. hispidus) · Woolly-headed Spiny Tree-rat (M. leniceps) · Tufted-tailed Spiny Tree-rat (M. occultus) · Pará Spiny Tree Rat (M. stimulax)

Proechimys	Short-tailed Spiny-rat (P. brevicauda) · Colombian Spiny-rat (P. canicollis) · Boyacá Spiny Rat (P. chrysaeolus) · Cuvier's Spiny-rat (P. cuvieri) · Pacific Spiny-rat (P. decumanus) · Stiff-spine Spiny-rat (P. echinothrix) · Gardner's Spiny-rat (P. gardneri) · Goeldi's Spiny-rat (P. goeldii) · Guaira Spiny-rat (P. guairae) · Guyenne Spiny-rat (P. guyannensis) · Guyanan Spiny-rat (P. hoplomyoides) · Kulina Spiny-rat (P. kulinae) · Long-tailed Spiny-rat (P. longicaudatus) · Magdalena Spiny Rat (P. magdalenae) · Minca Spiny Rat (P. mincae) · O'Connell's Spiny-rat (P. oconnelli) · Patton's Spiny-rat (P. pattoni) · Gray-footed Spiny-rat (P. poliopus) · Napo Spiny-rat (P. quadruplicatus) · Roberto's Spiny-rat (P. roberti) · Tome's Spiny-rat (P. semispinosus) · Simon's Spiny-rat (P. simonsi) · Steere's Spiny-rat (P. steerei) · Trinidad Spiny-rat (P. trinitatus) · Sucre Spiny-rat (P. urichi)

Thrichomys	Common Punaré (T. apereoides) · Highlands Punaré (T. inermis) · Paraguayan Punaré (T. pachyurus)

Trinomys	White-spined Atlantic Spiny-rat (T. albispinus) · Soft-spined Atlantic Spiny-rat (T. dimidiatus) · Elias' Atlantic Spiny-rat (T. eliasi) · Gracile Atlantic Spiny-rat (T. gratiosus) · Ihering's Atlantic Spiny-rat (T. iheringi) · Dark-caped Atlantic Spiny-rat (T. mirapitanga) · Moojen's Atlantic Spiny-rat (T. moojeni) · Mouse-tailed Atlantic Spiny-rat (T. myosuros) · Spiked Atlantic Spiny-rat (T. paratus) · Hairy Atlantic Spiny-rat (T. setosus) · Yonenaga's Atlantic Spiny-rat (T. yonenagae)