Biology:Guyanan spiny rat

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Short description: A species of mammals belonging to the spiny rat family of rodents

Guyanan Spiny-rat
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Subfamily: Echimyinae
Tribe: Myocastorini
Genus: Proechimys
Species:
P. hoplomyoides
Binomial name
Proechimys hoplomyoides
Tate, 1939

The Guyanan Spiny-rat, Proechimys hoplomyoides, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil , Guyana and Venezuela.

Phylogeny

Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P. hoplomyoides 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. guairae, P. poliopus, P. magdalenae, P. chrysaeolus, and P. urichi.[2][3][4][5]

Species-level cladogram of the genus Proechimys.
The cladogram has been reconstructed from morphological characters and mitochondrial DNA (cytochrome b) sequences.[2][3][4][5]

References

  1. Patton, J.; Catzeflis, F. (2008). "Proechimys hoplomyoides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008. https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/18287/0. Retrieved 6 January 2009. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 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. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 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. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 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: 1–306. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)2442.0.CO;2. ISSN 0003-0090. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0090%282000%29244%3C0001%3AMOTRJA%3E2.0.CO%3B2. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 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.fr/books?id=mbjnBgAAQBAJ. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1770393 entry