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SPECIES Sphiggurus pruinosus

Author:Thomas, 1905.
Citation:Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 16: 310.
Common Name:Frosted Hairy Dwarf Porcupine
Type Locality:Venezuela, Montañas de la Pedregosa near Mérida, 2500 m.
Distribution:C and N Colombia and W and N Venezuela.
Comments:Included in vestitus by Cabrera (1961), Concepcion and Molinari (1991), Woods (1993), and Soriano and Ochoa (1997), but see Voss and da Silva (2001) for a discussion of the morphological distinctiveness of these two taxa. Assigned to vestitus group based on presence of bristle-quills (Voss and da Silva, 2001). Karyotype has 2n=42 and FN=76 (Concepción and Molinari, 1991).
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