Dark spiny tree-rat

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Dark spiny tree-rat
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Tribe: Echimyini
Genus: Echimys
Species:
E. saturnus
Binomial name
Echimys saturnus
Thomas, 1928

The dark spiny tree-rat (Echimys saturnus) is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae. [2] It is a rarely encountered and nocturnal species, found in eastern Ecuador and central Peru. [3] [4]

Compared to Echimys chrysurus , the main diagnostic character state of this Echimys species is the mostly black dorsal part of the head and body. In addition, E. saturnus can be distinguished from Echimys vieirai by possessing a venter spotted with white while it is uniformly grayish brown in the latter species. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Solari, S. (2016). "Echimys saturnus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T6987A22207155. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T6987A22207155.en . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Species Echimys saturnus". 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. ↑ Blake, John; Mosquera, Diego; Guerra, Jaime; Romo, David (2010). "New locality records and the first photographs of living Echimys saturnus (dark tree rat, Echimyidae) from eastern Ecuador". Ecotropica. 16: 141–144.
  4. 1 2 Mosquera, Diego; Blake, John G.; Romo, David; Swing, Kelly (2016). "New observations of living Echimys saturnus (dark tree rat, Echimyidae) from eastern Ecuador". Mastozoologia Neotropical. 23: 87–91.
  5. ↑ Iack-Ximenes, Gilson Evaristo; de Vivo, Mario; Percequillo, Alexandre Reis (2005). "A new species of Echimys Cuvier, 1809 (Rodentia, Echimyidae) from Brazil". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 45 (5): 51–60. doi: 10.1590/S0031-10492005000500001 . ISSN   0031-1049.


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