Elias's Atlantic spiny rat

Elias's Atlantic spiny-rat or the Rio de Janeiro spiny rat (Trinomys eliasi), is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil.

Elias' Atlantic spiny-rat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Subfamily: Euryzygomatomyinae
Genus: Trinomys
Species:
T. eliasi
Binomial name
Trinomys eliasi
Pessoa and dos Reis (1993)

References

  1. Roach, N. & Naylor, L. (2016). "Trinomys eliasi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T136407A22211833. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T136407A22211833.en.
  • Infonatura
  • 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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