Boyacá Spiny Rat
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| Boyacá Spiny Rat | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Echimyidae |
| Genus: | Proechimys |
| Species: | P. chrysaeolus |
| Binomial name | |
| Proechimys chrysaeolus (Thomas, 1898) |
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The Boyacá Spiny Rat (Proechimys chrysaeolus) is a species of rodent in the Echimyidae family. It is endemic to Colombia.
[edit] References
- ^ Tirira, D., Boada, C., Weksler, M., Anderson, R. P. & Gómez-Laverde, M. (2008). Proechimys chrysaeolus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 January 2009.
- Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. Pp 1538-1600 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
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