Spiny tree-rat

Echimys
Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
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 spiny rat.[1] Members of the genus are collectively called spiny tree-rats as they are arboreal and have pronounced spines.

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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