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Short-tailed Spiny-rat

Proechimys brevicauda

Classification

The short-tailed spiny-rat (Proechimys brevicauda) or Huallaga spiny rat, is a spiny rat species found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Phylogeny Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P. brevicauda belongs to the so-called longicaudatus group of Proechimys species, and shares closer phylogenetic affinities with the other members of this clade: P.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 2Peru · 2