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Species of rodent
Taxidermized specimen at the
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova
The Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou spinosus ) is a
porcupine species from the family
Erethizontidae .
[2] It is found in
Argentina ,
Brazil ,
Paraguay and
Uruguay .
They have a short tail and gray brown quills and feed on
fruits ,
ant
pupae ,
vegetables and
roots .
This species was formerly sometimes assigned to Sphiggurus ,
[2] a genus no longer recognized since genetic studies showed it to be
polyphyletic .
[3] The population formerly recognized as the orange-spined hairy dwarf porcupine (Sphiggurus villosus )
[4] has been reclassified to this species.
[1] Its closest relatives are the
bicolored-spined porcupine (Coendou bicolor ) and the
black dwarf porcupine (Coendou nycthemera ).
[3]
References
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a
b Roach, N.; Naylor, L. (2016).
"Coendou spinosus " .
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 : e.T20630A22213974.
doi :
10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T20630A22213974.en . Retrieved 20 November 2021 .
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a
b Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005).
"Infraorder Hystricognathi" . In
Wilson, D.E. ; Reeder, D.M (eds.).
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1538–1600.
ISBN
978-0-8018-8221-0 .
OCLC
62265494 .
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a
b Voss, R. S.; Hubbard, C.; Jansa, S. A. (February 2013).
"Phylogenetic Relationships of New World Porcupines (Rodentia, Erethizontidae): Implications for Taxonomy, Morphological Evolution, and Biogeography" (PDF) . American Museum Novitates (3769): 1–36.
doi :
10.1206/3769.2 .
S2CID
55426177 .
^ Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005).
"Sphiggurus villosus " . In
Wilson, D.E. ; Reeder, D.M (eds.).
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1538–1600.
ISBN
978-0-8018-8221-0 .
OCLC
62265494 .
John F. Eisenberg and Kent H. Redford, 2000. Mammals of Neotropics: Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil.
Sphiggurus spinosus Coendou spinosus