Orange-spined hairy dwarf porcupine
| Orange-spined hairy dwarf porcupine | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Erethizontidae |
| Genus: | Sphiggurus |
| Species: | S. villosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Sphiggurus villosus (Cuvier, 1822) | |
The orange-spined hairy dwarf porcupine, Sphiggurus villosus, is a porcupine species from the family Erethizontidae[2] endemic to southern Brazil.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Leite, Y. & Patterson, B. (2008). Sphiggurus villosus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 5 January 2009.
- ↑ 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.