Echimys

Echimys
Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Subfamily: Echimyinae
Genus: Echimys
G. Cuvier, 1809
Species

Echimys chrysurus
Echimys saturnus
Echimys vierai

Synonyms

Echinomys Wagner, 1840
Loncheres Illiger, 1811
Nelomys Jourdan, 1837

Echimys is a genus of Echimyidae.[1] Members of this genus are collectively called spiny tree-rats.

Classification

The genus contains three extant species

Members of the genera Callistomys, Makalata, Pattonomys, and Phyllomys were all formerly considered part of the genus Echimys.

References

  1. Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Genus Echimys". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1578. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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