Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat

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Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Genus: Phyllomys
Species:
P. nigrispinus
Binomial name
Phyllomys nigrispinus
(Wagner, 1842)

The black-spined Atlantic tree-rat, (Phyllomys nigrispinus), is a South American spiny rat species in the family Echimyidae. It is found in southeastern Brazil, where it inhabits moist broadleaf forest and semideciduous forest in the Atlantic Forest region. [1] It is arboreal and is believed to build nests of leaves in trees. [1] Its karyotype has 2n=52. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Leite, Y.; Loss, C. (2016). "Phyllomys nigrispinus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T6984A22210294. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T6984A22210294.en . Retrieved 19 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. p. 1581. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.


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