Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine
| Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Erethizontidae |
| Genus: | Sphiggurus |
| Species: | S. melanurus |
| Binomial name | |
| Sphiggurus melanurus (Wagner, 1842) | |
The black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine, Sphiggurus melanurus, is a South American porcupine species from the family Erethizontidae.[2] It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.
References
- ↑ Catzeflis, F. & Langguth, A. (2008). Sphiggurus melanurus. 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.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, October 24, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.