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Napo Spiny-rat

Proechimys quadruplicatus

Classification

The Napo spiny rat (Proechimys quadruplicatus) is a spiny rat species found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. Phylogeny Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P. quadruplicatus belongs to the so-called goeldii 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
Peru · 1Brazil