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Ihering's Spiny Rat

Trinomys iheringi

Classification

Ihering's Atlantic spiny-rat or Ihering's spiny rat (Trinomys iheringi) is a spiny rat species from Brazil. Taxonomy It was first described by Oldfield Thomas in 1911, who placed it in Proechimys. It was named in honor of Hermann von Ihering, who collected the type specimen.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 1