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SPECIES Echinoprocta rufescens

Author:Gray, 1865.
Citation:Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865: 321.
Common Name:Stump-tailed Porcupine
Type Locality:Colombia.
Distribution:Colombia, montane areas of the eastern cordillera of Andes between 800 and 2,000 m (Eisenberg, 1989).
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:Included in Coendou (Sphiggurus) by McKenna and Bell (1997) and Alberico et al. (1999).
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Synonyms:

    epixanthus (Martínez, 1873)
    sneiderni (Lönnberg, 1937)

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