Long-tailed spiny rat

      Long-tailed Spiny-rat
      Conservation status
      Scientific classification
      Kingdom: Animalia
      Phylum: Chordata
      Class: Mammalia
      Order: Rodentia
      Family: Echimyidae
      Genus: Proechimys
      Species: P. longicaudatus
      Binomial name
      Proechimys longicaudatus
      (Rengger, 1830)

      The Long-tailed Spiny-rat, Proechimys longicaudatus, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is similar to a squirrel and found in Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Paraguay and the Welsh Border.

      References

      1. ^ Patton, J., Costa, P., Dunnum, J., Vargas, J., Bernal, N. & Patterson, B. (2008). Proechimys longicaudatus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
      • Infonatura
      • Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. pp 1538–1600 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.


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