Coendou baturitensis

Feijó & Langguth, 2013

Baturité Porcupine

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Hystricomorpha
Infraorder : Hystricognathi
Superfamily : Erethizontoidea
Family : Erethizontidae
Subfamily : Erethizontinae
Genus : Coendou
Subgenus : Coendou

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Feijó, J.A. and Langguth, A.R. 2013. Mamíferos de médio e grande porte do nordeste de Brasil: distribuição e taxonomia, com descição de novas espécies. Revista Nordestina de Biología 22(1-2):3-225.

Original name as described

Coendou baturitensis

Type material

UFPB 6809

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Community Sitio Barreiros, municipality of Aratuba, Baturite Range, Ceará, Brazil.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil

Taxonomy notes

recently described based on populations previously attribtued to C. prehensilis

Taxonomy notes citation

Feijó, A., & Langguth, A. (2013). Mamíferos de médio e grande porte do Nordeste do Brasil: distribuiçú e taxonomia, com descriçú de novas espécies. Revista Nordestina de Biologia, 22(1), 3-225. · Menezes, F. H., Feijó, A., Fernandes‐Ferreira, H., da Costa, I. R., & Cordeiro‐Estrela, P. (2021). Integrative systematics of Neotropical porcupines of Coendou prehensilis complex (Rodentia: Erethizontidae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 59(8), 2410-2439.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001239

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

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Coendou baturitensis

Feijó & Langguth, 2013

Family

Erethizontidae

Root name

baturitensis

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

UFPB 6809

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

124

Authority publication

Revista Nordestina de Biología

Name usages

  1. Wilson, Lacher & Mittermeier (2016:379) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59599)
  2. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #100000051) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  3. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #100000051) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001239) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  5. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/87411473/87411477) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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