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SPECIES Sphiggurus melanurus

Author:Wagner, 1842.
Citation:Archiv. für Naturg., I: 360.
Common Name:Black-tailed Hairy Dwarf Porcupine
Type Locality:Brazil, Rio Negro, Barra.
Distribution:North of the Amazon in the Amazon Basin of Brazil, the Guianas, Colombia, and probably Venezuela.
Comments:Considered conspecific with insidiosus by Cabrera (1961) and Husson (1978), but see Voss and Angermann (1997). Considered a distinct species by Emmons and Feer (1997), Handley and Pine (1992), and Voss and Angermann (1997); a position supported by molecular and karyotypic data (Bonvicino et al., 2002a). Karyotype has 2n=72 and FN=76 (Bonvicino et al., 2002a).
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