Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine
| Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Erethizontidae |
| Genus: | Sphiggurus |
| Species: | S. mexicanus |
| Binomial name | |
| Sphiggurus mexicanus (Kerr, 1792) | |
The Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine or Mexican tree porcupine (Sphiggurus mexicanus) is a species of rodent in the family Erethizontidae.[2] It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Mexico, Nicaragua and Belize.[3]
References
- ↑ Pino, J., Vázquez, E., Reid, F. & Cuarón, A. D. (2008). Sphiggurus mexicanus. 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: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1538–1600. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ↑ Biodiversity and Environmental Resource Data System of Belize "Sphiggurus mexicanus specimen records". Accessed on 5 March 2014.
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