Paraguayan punaré | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Echimyidae |
Genus: | Thrichomys |
Species: | T. pachyurus |
Binomial name | |
Thrichomys pachyurus (Wagner, 1845) |
The Paraguayan punaré, Thrichomys pachyurus, is a caviomorph rodent of South America from the spiny rat family.[2] It is found in savannas and forest edges in southwestern Brazil and northern Paraguay within the cerrado ecoregion.[1]