Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine

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Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Erethizontidae
Genus: Coendou
Species:
C. spinosus
Binomial name
Coendou spinosus
(F. Cuvier, 1822)
Taxidermized specimen at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova Museo Scienze Naturali Genova - Coendou spinosus.jpg
Taxidermized specimen at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova

The Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou spinosus) is a porcupine species from the family Erethizontidae. [2] It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.

They have a short tail and gray brown quills and feed on fruits, ant pupae, vegetables and roots.

This species was formerly sometimes assigned to Sphiggurus, [2] a genus no longer recognized since genetic studies showed it to be polyphyletic. [3] The population formerly recognized as the orange-spined hairy dwarf porcupine (Sphiggurus villosus) [4] has been reclassified to this species. [1] Its closest relatives are the bicolored-spined porcupine (Coendou bicolor) and the black dwarf porcupine (Coendou nycthemera). [3]

References

  1. 1 2 Roach, N.; Naylor, L. (2016). "Coendou spinosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T20630A22213974. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T20630A22213974.en . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. 1 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. 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.
  4. ↑ Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Sphiggurus villosus". 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.


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