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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER HYSTRICOMORPHA
--> INFRAORDER HYSTRICOGNATHI
--> FAMILY Erethizontidae
--> SUBFAMILY Erethizontinae
--> GENUS Echinoprocta
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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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
epixanthus (Martínez, 1873)
sneiderni (Lönnberg, 1937)
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