Frosted hairy dwarf porcupine

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Frosted hairy dwarf porcupine
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Erethizontidae
Genus: Coendou
Species:
C. pruinosus
Binomial name
Coendou pruinosus
Thomas, 1905

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]

References

  1. 1 2 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 20 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 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.
  3. 1 2 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.
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