Short-tailed spiny rat

Short-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. brevicauda
Binomial name
Proechimys brevicauda (Gunther, 1877)
Synonyms
P. bolivianus Thomas, 1901 P. gularis Thomas, 1911

The short-tailed spiny-rat, Proechimys brevicauda, or Huallaga spiny rat, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

References

1. Gómez-Laverde, M., Patton, J. & Percequillo, A. (2008). Proechimys brevicauda. 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.