Coendou vossi
Ramírez-Chaves, Mazepa, D. M. Morales-Martínez, Suárez-Castro, Colmenares-Pinzón, Pulido-Santacruz, & Noguera-Urbano, 2025
Voss' 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
Authority citation
Ramírez-Chaves, H.E., Mazepa, G.O., Morales-Martínez, D.M., Suárez-Castro, A.F., Colmenares-Pinzón, J.E., Pulido-Santacruz, P. and Noguera-Urbano, E.A. 2025-01-03. A review of the Quichua Porcupine _Coendou quichua_ complex (Rodentia: Erethizontidae) with the description of a new species from Colombia. Journal of Mammalogy (in press).
Authority publication link
https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyae140Original name as described
Coendou vossi
Type material
MHNUCa M 3432
Type kind
holotype
Type locality
"Corregimiento de Florencia (5.524944 N, −75.041724 W; 1,580 m elev.), municipality of Samaná, Department of Caldas, Colombia."
Biogeographic realm
Neotropic
Country distribution
Colombia
Taxonomy notes
recently described based on populations previously attributed to C. quichua
Taxonomy notes citation
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
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