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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER HYSTRICOMORPHA
--> INFRAORDER HYSTRICOGNATHI
--> FAMILY Erethizontidae
--> SUBFAMILY Erethizontinae
--> GENUS Sphiggurus
SPECIES Sphiggurus vestitus
| Author: | Thomas, 1899. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 4: 284. | | Common Name: | Brown Hairy Dwarf Porcupine | | Type Locality: | Colombia. | | Distribution: | Colombia, small area of the E Andean cordillera about 60 km WNW of Bogotá at about 1300 m. | | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | | Comments: | Reviewed by Voss and da Silva (2001), who included Sphiggurus in Coendou. Includes pruinosus according to Cabrera (1961), Concepción 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). |
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