Stump-tailed porcupine
| Stump-tailed porcupine | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Erethizontidae |
| Subfamily: | Erethizontinae |
| Genus: | Echinoprocta Gray, 1865 |
| Species: | E. rufescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Echinoprocta rufescens Gray, 1865 | |
The stump-tailed porcupine (Echinoprocta rufescens) is a species of rodent in the family Erethizontidae. It is monotypic within the genus Echinoprocta.[2] Stump-tailed porcupines are found mainly in Colombia, with a few records from Ecuador.
References
- ↑ Delgado, C. & Tirira, D. (2008). Echinoprocta rufescens. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 5 January 2009.
- ↑ Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. Pp 1538-1600 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
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