Frosted hairy dwarf porcupine

Frosted hairy dwarf porcupine
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Erethizontidae
Genus: Sphiggurus
Species: S. pruinosus
Binomial name
Sphiggurus pruinosus
(Thomas, 1905)

The frosted hairy dwarf porcupine, Sphiggurus pruinosus, is a porcupine species in the family Erethizontidae.[2] It is endemic to Colombia and northern and eastern Venezuela. It lives in lowland tropical rainforest and cloud forest at elevations from 50 to 2,600 meters (160 to 8,500 ft).[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Delgado, C. & Gómez-Laverde, M. (2008). Sphiggurus pruinosus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 1 March 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. 1549. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400124.