Sphiggurus vestitus Thomas 1899

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Erethizontidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1545-1550 : 1550

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scientific name

Sphiggurus vestitus Thomas 1899
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Sphiggurus vestitus Thomas 1899 View in CoL

Sphiggurus vestitus Thomas 1899 View in CoL , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 4: 284.

Type Locality: Colombia.

Vernacular Names: Brown Hairy Dwarf Porcupine.

Distribution: Colombia, small area of the E Andean cordillera about 60 km WNW of Bogotá at about 1300 m.

Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable.

Discussion: Reviewed by Voss and da Silva (2001), who included Sphiggurus in Coendou . Includes pruinosus according to Cabrera (1961), Concepción and Molinari (1991), Woods (1993), and Soriano and Ochoa (1997), but see Voss and da Silva (2001) for a discussion of the morphological distinctiveness of these two taxa. Assigned to vestitus group based on presence of bristle-quills ( Voss and da Silva, 2001).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Erethizontidae

Genus

Sphiggurus

Loc

Sphiggurus vestitus Thomas 1899

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Sphiggurus vestitus

Thomas 1899: 284
1899
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