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Guyanan Spiny-rat

Proechimys hoplomyoides

Classification

The Guyanan spiny-rat (Proechimys hoplomyoides) is a spiny rat species found in Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela. The species was first described by George Henry Hamilton Tate in 1939. Phylogeny Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil