Coendou rothschildi

O. Thomas, 1902

Rothschild's 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

Thomas, O. 1902-08-01. Diagnosis of a new Central-American porcupine. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7)10(56):169.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19338970

Original name as described

Coendou Rothschildi

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1903.3.1.93

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/f44af839-03d2-48e5-a895-313d2e6dae16

Type locality

Sevilla Island, off Chiriqui, Panama.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Panama · Colombia

Taxonomy notes

split form C. quichua

Taxonomy notes citation

Voss, R.S. 2011. Revisionary notes on Neotropical porcupines (Rodentia: Erethizontidae). 3. an annotated checklist of the species of Coendou lacépède, 1799. American Museum Novitates 3720: 1–36. · Ramírez-Chaves, H. E., Mazepa, G. O., Morales-Martínez, D. M., Suárez-Castro, A. F., Colmenares-Pinzón, J. E., Pulido-Santacruz, P., & Noguera-Urbano, E. A. (2025). A review of the Quichua Porcupine Coendou quichua complex (Rodentia: Erethizontidae) with the description of a new species from Colombia. Journal of Mammalogy, gyae140.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006906

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Coendou Rothschildi

O. Thomas, 1902

Family

Erethizontidae

Root name

rothschildi

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1903.3.1.93

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/f44af839-03d2-48e5-a895-313d2e6dae16

Authority page

169

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19338970

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Goldman (1920:134, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30263246) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9520)
  2. Goodwin (1946:417) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15800)
  3. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:571) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  4. Woods (1993:775) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69028)
  5. Woods & Kilpatrick (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8545)
  6. Ramírez-Chaves, Mazepa, Morales-Martínez, Suárez-Castro, Colmenares-Pinzón, Pulido-Santacruz & Noguera-Urbano (2025:14) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68467)

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