Bahia porcupine | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Erethizontidae |
Genus: | Coendou |
Species: | C. insidiosus |
Binomial name | |
Coendou insidiosus (Olfers, 1818) |
The Bahia porcupine (Coendou insidiosus), is a New World porcupine species in the family Erethizontidae endemic to the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. [2] It was formerly sometimes assigned to Sphiggurus, [2] a genus no longer recognized since genetic studies showed it to be polyphyletic. [3] Sphiggurus pallidus, formerly considered a separate species but known from two young specimens only, is a synonym of this species. [1]
Bahia porcupines are eaten by Falconiformes, Felidae, snakes and humans. [4]