Frosted hairy dwarf porcupine | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Erethizontidae |
Genus: | Coendou |
Species: | C. pruinosus
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Binomial name | |
Coendou pruinosus
Thomas, 1905
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The frosted hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou pruinosus) is a porcupine species in the family Erethizontidae [2] from Colombia and northern and eastern Venezuela. It was formerly sometimes assigned to Sphiggurus, [2] a genus no longer recognized since genetic studies showed it to be polyphyletic. [3] The species lives in lowland tropical rainforest and cloud forest at elevations from 50 to 2,600 meters (160 to 8,530 ft). [1] Its karyotype has 2n = 42 and FN = 76. [2] Its closest relative is the brown hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou vestitus). [3]