Bahia porcupine

Bahia porcupine
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Erethizontidae
Genus: Sphiggurus
Species: S. insidiosus
Binomial name
Sphiggurus insidiosus
(Olfers, 1818)

The Bahia porcupine, Sphiggurus insidiosus, is a New World porcupine species in the genus Sphiggurus endemic to the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil.[2] Sphiggurus pallidus, formerly considered a separate species but known from two young specimens only, is a synonym of this species.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Leite, Y. & Patterson, B. (2008). Sphiggurus insidiosus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 5 January 2009.
  2. Woods, C. A.; Kilpatrick, C. W. (2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1538–1600. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.