Frosted hairy dwarf porcupine
The frosted hairy dwarf porcupine, Coendou pruinosus, is a porcupine species in the family Erethizontidae[2] from Colombia and northern and eastern Venezuela. It was formerly sometimes assigned to Sphiggurus,[2] a genus no longer recognized since genetic studies showed it to be polyphyletic.[3] The species lives in lowland tropical rainforest and cloud forest at elevations from 50 to 2,600 meters (160 to 8,530 ft).[1] Its karyotype has 2n = 42 and FN = 76.[2] Its closest relative is the brown hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou vestitus).[3]
| Frosted hairy dwarf porcupine | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Erethizontidae |
| Genus: | Coendou |
| Species: | C. pruinosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Coendou pruinosus (Thomas, 1905) | |
References
- Delgado, C. (2016). "Coendou pruinosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T136485A22213797. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T136485A22213797.en. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
- Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1549. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- Voss, R. S.; Hubbard, C.; Jansa, S. A. (February 2013). "Phylogenetic Relationships of New World Porcupines (Rodentia, Erethizontidae): Implications for Taxonomy, Morphological Evolution, and Biogeography" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 3769 (3769): 1–36. doi:10.1206/3769.2. S2CID 55426177.
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