Paraguayan punaré

Paraguayan punaré
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]

References

  1. ^ a b Bonvicino, C. & Lacher, T. (2008). "Thrichomys pachyurus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/136245. Retrieved 8 July 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. 1589. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400524.