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Steere's Spiny Rat

Proechimys steerei

Classification

Steere's spiny rat (Proechimys steerei) is a spiny rat species found in Bolivia, Brazil and Peru. Phylogeny Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P. steerei 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 · 5Brazil