| Trinidad spiny rat | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Echimyidae |
| Subfamily: | Echimyinae |
| Tribe: | Myocastorini |
| Genus: | Proechimys |
| Species: | P. trinitatis |
| Binomial name | |
| Proechimys trinitatis (J. A. Allen & Chapman, 1893) | |
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The Trinidad spiny rat (Proechimys trinitatis [2] [3] ) is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae. It is found in Trinidad and Tobago and northern Venezuela.
Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P. trinitatus belongs to the so-called trinitatus group of Proechimys species, and shares closer phylogenetic affinities with the other members of this clade: P. mincae , P. guairae , P. poliopus , P. magdalenae , P. chrysaeolus , P. urichi , and P. hoplomyoides . [4] [5] [6] [7]
| 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. [4] [5] [6] [7] |
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