Thrichomys

Thrichomys
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Subfamily: Eumysopinae
Genus: Thrichomys
Trouessart, 1880
Type species
Nelomys apereoides
Lund, 1839
Species

Thrichomys apereoides
Thrichomys inermis
Thrichomys pachyurus

Thrichomys is a South American rodent genus in the family Echimyidae.[1] It contains three species, found in Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. They are as follows:

References

  1. ^ 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.). pp. 1589. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400519.