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Kulina Spiny-rat

Proechimys kulinae

Classification

The Kulina spiny-rat (Proechimys kulinae) or Javari spiny rat, is a spiny rat species found in Brazil and Peru. Phylogeny Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P. kulinae belongs to the so-called gardneri group of Proechimys species.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
BrazilPeru