Coendou rothschildi Thomas, 1902 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 10:169.

TYPE LOCALITY: Panama, Chiriqui, Sevilla Isl .

DISTRIBUTION: Panama.

COMMENTS: Possibly a subspecies of bicolor (Goldman, 1920:135; Hall, 1981:854). Corbet and Hill (1991:200) listed rothschildi as a subspecies of bicolor . Emmons and Feer (1990: 198) stated that if C. rothschildi is valid, the C. " bicolor " west of the Andes are probably C. rothschildi .