Streaked dwarf porcupine

Streaked dwarf porcupine
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Erethizontidae
Genus: Sphiggurus
Species: S. ichillus
Binomial name
Sphiggurus ichillus
Voss & da Silva, 2001

The streaked dwarf porcupine, Sphiggurus ichillus, is a porcupine species in the family Erethizontidae.[2] It is known from the lowlands (below an altitude of 400 m) of eastern Ecuador, and may be present in Peru as well.[1] It appears to be nocturnal and arboreal in its habits.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Tirira, D., Boada, C., Weksler, M., Anderson, R.P. & Gómez-Laverde, M. (2008). Sphiggurus ichillus. 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. 1548. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400117.