Trinomys
| Trinomys Temporal range: Recent | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Echimyidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumysopinae |
| Genus: | Trinomys Thomas, 1921 |
| Species | |
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Trinomys albispinus | |
Trinomys is a genus of South American spiny rats in the family Echimyidae.[1]
Extant species of Trinomys
Based on Natureserve.[2]
| Trinomys albispinus | White-spined Atlantic spiny-rat |
| Trinomys dimidiatus | Soft-spined Atlantic spiny-rat |
| Trinomys eliasi | Elias' Atlantic spiny-rat |
| Trinomys gratiosus | Gracile Atlantic spiny-rat |
| Trinomys iheringi | Ihering's Atlantic spiny-rat |
| Trinomys mirapitanga | Dark-caped Atlantic spiny-rat |
| Trinomys moojeni | Moojen's Atlantic spiny-rat |
| Trinomys myosuros | Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny-rat |
| Trinomys paratus | Spiked Atlantic spiny-rat |
| Trinomys setosus | Hairy Atlantic spiny-rat |
| Trinomys yonenagae | Spiked Atlantic spiny-rat |
The species of spiny rats in the genus Trinomys are apparently all Brazilian.[2] In particular many of them are endemic to the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. Not much is known for certain about their ranges however, which still are being investigated, with frequent extensions to the recorded distributions of several species in various ecological classes of forest and dry land. They do not however appear to occur at high altitudes, and several of their ranges appear to be parapatric.[3]
References
- ↑ 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. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- 1 2 InfoNatura: Animals and Ecosystems of Latin America [web application]. 2007. Version 5.0 . Arlington, Virginia (USA): NatureServe. Available: http://www.natureserve.org/infonatura.
- ↑ Attias, N., Raíces, D. S. L., Pessoa, F. S., Albuquerque, H., Jordão-Nogueira, T., Modesto, T. C., & Bergallo, H. D. G. (2009). Potential distribution and new records of Trinomys species (Rodentia: Echimyidae) in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Zoologia Curitiba Impresso, 26(2), 305-315. SciELO Brasil