| Tome's Spiny-rat Temporal range: Recent |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Echimyidae |
| Genus: | Proechimys |
| Species: | P. semispinosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Proechimys semispinosus (Tome, 1860) |
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P. s. burrus Bangs, 1901 |
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| Synonyms | |
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gorgonae Bangs, 1905 |
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Tome's Spiny-rat (Proechimys semispinosus), also known as the Central American spiny rat, is a species of spiny rat distributed from Honduras to Ecuador. The IUCN classifies it as least concern under P. semispinosus and near threatened as P. gorgonae.