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.

Original name as described

Erethizon (Echinoprocta) rufescens

Other common names

Short-tailed Porcupine

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1853.9.28.30

Type kind

holotype

Type 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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