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Patton s Spiny-rat

Proechimys pattoni

Classification

Patton's spiny-rat (Proechimys pattoni) is a spiny rat species found in Brazil and Peru. Phylogeny Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P. pattoni belongs to the so-called gardneri group of Proechimys species.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 6Brazil