Coendou rufescens
(J. E. Gray, 1865)
Stump-tailed 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
Listed in MSW3 2005
Authority citation
Gray, J.E. 1865-06. Notice of an apparently undescribed species of American porcupine. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865(1):321-322.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28497260Original name as described
Erethizon (Echinoprocta) rufescens
Other common names
Short-tailed Porcupine
Type material
BMNH:Mamm:1853.9.28.30
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/3378744b-966b-40a7-92ab-d936ee401900Type locality
"Columbia [= Colombia]."
Biogeographic realm
Neotropic
Country distribution
Colombia · Ecuador · Peru · Bolivia
Taxonomy notes
moved from Echinoprocta to Coendou
Taxonomy notes citation
Voss, R.S. 2011. Revisionary notes on Neotropical porcupines (Rodentia: Erethizontidae). 3. an anno-tated checklist of the species of Coendou lacépède, 1799. american Museum Novitates 3720: 1–36.
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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