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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER HYSTRICOMORPHA
--> INFRAORDER HYSTRICOGNATHI
--> FAMILY Echimyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Eumysopinae
--> GENUS Proechimys
SPECIES Proechimys poliopus
| Author: | Osgood, 1914. | | Citation: | Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 10: 135. | | Common Name: | Gray-footed Spiny-rat | | Type Locality: | Venezuela, Táchira State, San Juan de Colón (797 m) on N slope of Sierra de Merida. Listed in Honacki et al. (1982:590) as Venezuela, Zulia Prov., Río Aurare, El Panorama, for unknown reason. | | Distribution: | NW Venezuela, between Lake Maracaibo and the Sierra de Perija and adjacent Colombia. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Placed in trinitatus group (Patton, 1987). Formerly included in guyannensis; see Reig et al. (1980). Karyotype has 2n=42 and FN=72-76 (Aguilera and Corti, 1994; Reig and Useche, 1976). |
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