| Guiara Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Echimyidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumysopinae |
| Genus: | Euryzygomatomys Goeldi, 1901 |
| Species: | E. spinosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Euryzygomatomys spinosus (Fischer, 1814) |
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The Guiara, Euryzygomatomys spinosus, or Fischer's Guiara, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. It is one of only two species in the genus Euryzygomatomys.