Makalata armata (I. Geoffroy, 1830) . Rev. Zool. Paris, 1:101.

TYPE LOCALITY: French Guiana, Cayenne .

DISTRIBUTION: Andes of N Ecuador and Colombia, Venezuela, Guianas, Amazon Basin of Brazil, Tobago, Trinidad; perhaps Martinique (record probably erroneus, see Hall, 1981: 1180).

SYNONYMS: castaneus, guianae, hispidus, longirostris, macrourus, occasius .

COMMENTS: Formerly included in Echimys; transferred to Makalata by Husson (1978:445). Corbet and Hill (1991:206) listed this species in Echimys . Emmons and Feer (1990:218) recognized occasius as a species ( Echimys occasius).