Rothschild's Porcupine

Rothschild's Porcupine
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Erethizontidae
Genus: Coendou
Species: C. rothschildi
Binomial name
Coendou rothschildi
(Thomas, 1902)[2]

Rothschild's Porcupine, Coendou rothschildi, is a species of rodent in the family Erethizontidae.[3] It is usually considered endemic to Panama. A population in western Ecuador belongs either to this species or to Coendou bicolor.

References

  1. ^ Samudio, R. & Timm, R. (2008). Coendou rothschildi. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2009.
  2. ^ Biolib.cz
  3. ^ 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.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400104.