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Cuvier's Spiny Rat

Proechimys cuvieri

Classification

Cuvier's spiny-rat (Proechimys cuvieri) is a spiny rat species found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru and Suriname. Phylogeny Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P. cuvieri 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 · 5Peru · 1France