Stump-tailed porcupine

Stump-tailed porcupine
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Erethizontidae
Genus:	Coendou
Species:	C. rufescens
Binomial name
Coendou rufescens (J. E. Gray, 1865)

The stump-tailed porcupine (Coendou rufescens) is a species of rodent in the family Erethizontidae. ^[2] It is found mainly in Colombia, with a few records from Ecuador.

This species was formerly sometimes assigned to Echinoprocta, ^[2] a genus no longer recognized since genetic studies showed it to nest within Coendou . ^[3] Its closest relative is the Andean porcupine (Coendou quichua). ^[3]

References

1. Tirira, D. (2016). "Coendou rufescens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T7010A22213241. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T7010A22213241.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
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. 1547–1548. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.
3. 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". American Museum Novitates (3769): 1–36. doi:10.1206/3769.2. hdl: 2246/6417 . S2CID   55426177.