Elias' Atlantic spiny rat

Elias' Atlantic spiny-rat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Genus: Trinomys
Species: T. eliasi
Binomial name
Trinomys eliasi
(Pessoa & Dos Reis, 1993)

Elias' Atlantic spiny-rat, Trinomys eliasi, or the Rio de Janeiro spiny rat, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil.

References

  1. Brito, D., Leite, Y. & Patterson, B. (2008). Trinomys eliasi. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.


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