Long-tailed spiny rat
| Long-tailed Spiny-rat | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Echimyidae |
| Genus: | Proechimys |
| Species: | P. longicaudatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Proechimys longicaudatus (Rengger, 1830) | |
The Long-tailed Spiny-rat, Proechimys longicaudatus, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is similar to a squirrel and found in Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Paraguay and the Welsh Border.
References
- ↑ Patton, J., Costa, P., Dunnum, J., Vargas, J., Bernal, N. & Patterson, B. (2008). Proechimys longicaudatus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
- Infonatura
- Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. pp 1538–1600 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.