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--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER HYSTRICOMORPHA
--> INFRAORDER HYSTRICOGNATHI
--> FAMILY Echimyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Echimyinae
--> GENUS Diplomys
SPECIES Diplomys rufodorsalis
Author: | J. A. Allen, 1899. | Citation: | Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 12: 197. | Common Name: | Red Crested Soft-furred Spiny-rat | Type Locality: | Colombia, Magdalena Dept., Onaca. | Distribution: | Known only from the type locality in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of NE Colombia. | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable; rare (known only from two specimens). | Comments: | Taxonomy being revised (Emmons, In Press). |
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