Rothschild's porcupine
| Rothschild's porcupine | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Erethizontidae |
| Genus: | Coendou |
| Species: | C. rothschildi |
| Binomial name | |
| Coendou rothschildi (Thomas, 1902)[2] | |
Rothschild's porcupine, Coendou rothschildi, is a species of rodent in the family Erethizontidae.[3] It is usually considered endemic to Panama. A population in western Ecuador belongs either to this species or to Coendou bicolor.
References
- ↑ Samudio, R. & Timm, R. (2008). Coendou rothschildi. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 5 January 2009.
- ↑ Biolib.cz
- ↑ 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.
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