Biology:Dark spiny tree-rat
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Short description: Species of rodent
| Dark spiny 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: | Echimys |
| Species: | E. saturnus
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| Binomial name | |
| Echimys saturnus Thomas, 1928
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The dark spiny tree-rat (Echimys saturnus) is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae.[2] It is a rarely encountered and nocturnal species, found in eastern Ecuador and central Peru.[3][4]
Compared to Echimys chrysurus, the main diagnostic character state of this Echimys species is the mostly black dorsal part of the head and body. In addition, E. saturnus can be distinguished from Echimys vieirai by possessing a venter spotted with white while it is uniformly grayish brown in the latter species.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ Solari, S. (2016). "Echimys saturnus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T6987A22207155. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T6987A22207155.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/6987/22207155. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ↑ Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Species Echimys saturnus". in Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. 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. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400431.
- ↑ Blake, John; Mosquera, Diego; Guerra, Jaime; Romo, David (2010). "New locality records and the first photographs of living Echimys saturnus (dark tree rat, Echimyidae) from eastern Ecuador" (in en). Ecotropica 16: 141–144.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mosquera, Diego; Blake, John G.; Romo, David; Swing, Kelly (2016). "New observations of living Echimys saturnus (dark tree rat, Echimyidae) from eastern Ecuador" (in en). Mastozoologia Neotropical 23: 87–91.
- ↑ Iack-Ximenes, Gilson Evaristo; de Vivo, Mario; Percequillo, Alexandre Reis (2005). "A new species of Echimys Cuvier, 1809 (Rodentia, Echimyidae) from Brazil". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 45 (5): 51–60. doi:10.1590/S0031-10492005000500001. ISSN 0031-1049. http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0031-10492005000500001.
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