Biology:Pacific spiny rat
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Short description: Species of mammals belonging to the spiny rat family of rodents
| Pacific spiny rat | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Echimyidae |
| Subfamily: | Echimyinae |
| Tribe: | Myocastorini |
| Genus: | Proechimys |
| Species: | P. decumanus
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| Binomial name | |
| Proechimys decumanus (Thomas, 1899)
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The Pacific spiny rat (Proechimys decumanus) is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae.[2] It is found in Ecuador and Peru.
Phylogeny
Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P. decumanus represents one independent evolutionary lineage within the genus Proechimys, without clear phylogenetic affinity for any of the 6 major groups of species.[3][4]
| Species-level cladogram of the genus Proechimys. |
References
- ↑ Roach, N.; Naylor, L. (2016). "Proechimys decumanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T18280A22208822. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T18280A22208822.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/18280/22208822. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ↑ Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Species Proechimys decumanus". 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=13400482.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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 ☰ Q1765400 entry
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