Biology:Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat
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Short description: Species of rodent
| Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Echimyidae |
| Tribe: | Echimyini |
| Genus: | Phyllomys |
| Species: | P. nigrispinus
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| Binomial name | |
| Phyllomys nigrispinus (Wagner, 1842)
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The black-spined Atlantic tree-rat, (Phyllomys nigrispinus), is a South American spiny rat species in the family Echimyidae. It is found in southeastern Brazil , where it inhabits moist broadleaf forest and semideciduous forest in the Atlantic Forest region.[1] It is arboreal and is believed to build nests of leaves in trees.[1] Its karyotype has 2n=52.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Leite, Y.; Loss, C. (2016). "Phyllomys nigrispinus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T6984A22210294. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T6984A22210294.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/6984/22210294. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ↑ Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi". in Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1581. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400456.
Wikidata ☰ Q1765535 entry
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