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Stiff-spine Spiny-rat

Proechimys echinothrix

Classification

The stiff-spine spiny-rat (Proechimys echinothrix) or Tefe spiny rat, is a spiny rat species found in Brazil and Colombia. Phylogeny Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P. echinothrix represents one independent evolutionary lineage within the genus Proechimys, without clear phylogenetic affinity for any of the 6 major groups of species.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
BrazilPeru