Roosmalen's dwarf porcupine

Roosmalen's dwarf porcupine
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Erethizontidae
Genus:	Sphiggurus
Species:	S. roosmalenorum
Binomial name
Sphiggurus roosmalenorum (Voss & da Silva, 2001)

Roosmalen's dwarf porcupine, Sphiggurus roosmalenorum, is a porcupine species from the New World porcupine family endemic to northern Brazil.^[2] It is named for Marc van Roosmalen and his son Tomas, whose collections from the middle Madeira included the first known specimens.

References

1. Leite, Y. & Patterson, B. (2008). Sphiggurus roosmalenorum. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 5 January 2009.
2. 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.

• Natureserve.org
• Voss R.S. & da Silva M.N.F. 2001. Revisionary Notes on Neotropical Porcupines (Rodentia: Erethizontidae). 2. A Review of the Coendou vestitus Group with Descriptions of Two New Species from Amazonia. American Museum Novitates 3351:24-32.