Biology:Guaira spiny rat
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Short description: Species of mammals belonging to the spiny rat family of rodents
| Guaira spiny-rat | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Echimyidae |
| Tribe: | Myocastorini |
| Genus: | Proechimys |
| Species: | P. guairae
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| Binomial name | |
| Proechimys guairae Thomas, 1901
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The Guaira spiny-rat (Proechimys guairae) is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae.[2] It is endemic to Venezuela. It is commonly referred to as 'casiragua' to avoid confusion with true rats (Muroidea)[3]
Phylogeny
Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P. guairae belongs to the so-called trinitatus group of Proechimys species, and shares closer phylogenetic affinities with the other members of this clade: P. trinitatus, P. mincae, P. poliopus, P. magdalenae, P. chrysaeolus, P. urichi, and P. hoplomyoides.[4][5][6][7]
| Species-level cladogram of the genus Proechimys. |
| The cladogram has been reconstructed from morphological characters and mitochondrial DNA (cytochrome b) sequences.[4][5][6][7] |
References
- ↑ Roach, N.; Naylor, L. (2016). "Proechimys guairae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T18284A22209221. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T18284A22209221.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/18284/22209221. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ↑ Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Species Proechimys guairae". 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=13400486.
- ↑ Weir, Barbara J. (1973). "Another hystricomorph rodent: keeping casiragua (Proechimys guairae) in captivity". Laboratory Animals 7 (2): 125–134. doi:10.1258/002367773781008687. PMID 4712301.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Patton, James L. (1987). "Species groups of spiny rats, genus Proechimys (Rodentia: Echimyidae)" (in English). Fieldiana: Zoology, Studies in Neotropical Mammalogy: Essays in Honor of Philip Hershkovitz 39: 305–345. ISSN 0015-0754. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/9267.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Da Silva, Maria Nazareth F. (1998). "Four New species of spiny rats of the genus Proechimys (Rodentia : Echimyidae) from the Western Amazon of Brazil" (in en). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 111: 436–471. ISSN 0006-324X. http://biostor.org/reference/81093.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Patton, James L.; Da Silva, Maria Nazareth F.; Malcolm, Jay R. (2000-01-25). "Mammals of the Rio Juruá and the evolutionary and ecological diversification of Amazonia". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 244: 1–306. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)244<0001:MOTRJA>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0003-0090. https://zenodo.org/record/5347311.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Patton, James L.; Leite, Rafael N. (2015-03-09). "Genus Proechimys J. A. Allen, 1899". in Patton, James L. (in en). Mammals of South America, Volume 2: Rodents. University of Chicago Press. pp. 950–989. ISBN 9780226169606. https://books.google.com/books?id=mbjnBgAAQBAJ.
Wikidata ☰ Q1765891 entry
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