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Vieira's Tree-rat

Echimys vieirai

Classification

Echimys vieirai is a spiny rat species from South America, described in 2005. It is found in Brazil. The species name vieirai is a patronym for the Brazilian mammalogist Carlos Octaviano da Cunha Vieira, curator of the Mammal Collection at the Museum of Zoology of the University of São Paulo (MZUSP), from the early 1940s to 1958.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil