Long-tailed spiny rat

Long-tailed Spiny-rat
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Echimyidae
Genus:	Proechimys
Species:	P. longicaudatus
Binomial name
Proechimys longicaudatus (Rengger, 1830)

The long-tailed spiny-rat, Proechimys longicaudatus, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Peru and Paraguay.

References

1. Patton, J., Costa, P., Dunnum, J., Vargas, J., Bernal, N. & Patterson, B. (2008). Proechimys longicaudatus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.

• Infonatura
• 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.