Roosmalen's dwarf porcupine

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Roosmalen's dwarf porcupine
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Erethizontidae
Genus: Coendou
Species:
C. roosmalenorum
Binomial name
Coendou roosmalenorum
Voss & da Silva, 2001
Synonyms
  • Sphiggurus roosmalenorus(Voss & da Silva, 2001)

Roosmalen's dwarf porcupine (Coendou roosmalenorum) is a porcupine species from the New World porcupine family likely endemic to northern Brazil. Only three specimens were known at the time, and only one had a collection locality. [2] [3] It is named for Marc van Roosmalen and his son Tomas, whose collections from the middle Madeira included the first known specimens. [3] It was soon assigned to the genus Sphiggurus, [2] although this genus was not recognized by the authors. [3] Genetic studies in 2013 have since showed Sphiggurus to be polyphyletic (this taxon was omitted from the study). [4] Nonetheless it is commonly classified as Sphiggurus roosmalenorum. [5] [6] Coendou roosmalenorum may be misspelled due to a conflicting basionym combination. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Roach, N.; Naylor, L. (2016). "Coendou roosmalenorum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T136518A22214051. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T136518A22214051.en . Retrieved 19 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 3 Voss, Robert S.; da Silva, Maria N. F. (31 October 2001). "Revisionary Notes on Neotropical Porcupines (Rodentia: Erethizontidae). 2. A Review of the Coendou vestitus Group with Descriptions of Two New Species from Amazonia" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (3351): 24–32. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "ITIS - Report: Sphiggurus roosmalenorum".
  6. ↑ "Sphiggurus roosmalenorum (Voss & da Silva, 2001)".
  7. ↑ "Coendou roosmalenorum Voss & da Silva, 2001".
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