Bahia porcupine

Bahia porcupine
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
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]

Predation

Bahia porcupines are eaten by Falconiformes, Felidae, snakes and humans. ^[4]

References

1. Roach, N.; Naylor, L. (2016). "Coendou insidiosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T20631A22213745. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T20631A22213745.en . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
2. 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. pp. 1538–1600. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.
3. 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): 1–36. doi:10.1206/3769.2. S2CID   55426177.
4. Sphiggurus insidiosus (Bahia hairy dwarf porcupine). Animal Diversity Web. https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Sphiggurus_insidiosus/

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