Streaked dwarf porcupine

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Streaked dwarf porcupine
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Erethizontidae
Genus: Coendou
Species:
C. ichillus
Binomial name
Coendou ichillus
Voss & da Silva, 2001
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Range of C. ichillus

The streaked dwarf porcupine (Coendou ichillus) is a porcupine species in the family Erethizontidae. [2] It is known from the lowlands (below an altitude of 400 m) of eastern Ecuador, and may be present in Peru as well. [1] It appears to be nocturnal and arboreal in its habits. [1]

This species was formerly sometimes assigned to Sphiggurus, [2] a genus no longer recognized since genetic studies showed it to be polyphyletic. [3] Its closest relatives are the frosted hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou pruinosus) and the brown hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou vestitus). [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Weksler, M.; Anderson, R.P.; Gómez-Laverde, M. (2016). "Coendou ichillus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T136597A22213629. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T136597A22213629.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. p. 1548. 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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