| Short-tailed spiny-rat | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Echimyidae |
| Subfamily: | Echimyinae |
| Tribe: | Myocastorini |
| Genus: | Proechimys |
| Species: | P. brevicauda |
| Binomial name | |
| Proechimys brevicauda (Günther, 1877) | |
| Synonyms | |
The short-tailed spiny-rat (Proechimys brevicauda) or Huallaga spiny rat, is a spiny rat species [2] found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P. brevicauda belongs to the so-called longicaudatus group of Proechimys species, and shares closer phylogenetic affinities with the other members of this clade: P. longicaudatus and P. cuvieri . [3] [4] [5] [6]
| Species-level cladogram of the genus Proechimys. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The cladogram has been reconstructed from morphological characters and mitochondrial DNA (cytochrome b) sequences. [3] [4] [5] [6] |
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