Biology:Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine

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Short description: Species of rodent

Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine
Coendou melanurus.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Erethizontidae
Genus: Coendou
Species:
C. melanurus
Binomial name
Coendou melanurus
(Wagner, 1842)

The black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou melanurus) is a porcupine species from the family Erethizontidae.[2] It is found in Brazil , Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.

This species was formerly sometimes assigned to Sphiggurus,[2] a genus no longer recognized since genetic studies showed it to be polyphyletic.[3] Its closest relatives are the frosted hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou pruinosus), the brown hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou vestitus) and the streaked dwarf porcupine (Coendou ichillus).[3]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q28155036 entry