Makalata armata (I. Geoffroy, 1830)

Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 771-806 : 793

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scientific name	Makalata armata (I. Geoffroy, 1830)
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Makalata armata (I. Geoffroy, 1830) View in CoL . 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 ).