Biology:Robert's spiny rat

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

Robert's 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. roberti
Binomial name
Proechimys roberti
Thomas, 1901
Proechimys roberti distribution (colored).png
Synonyms

P. oris Thomas, 1904[2]

Robert's spiny-rat (Proechimys roberti) or Para spiny rat, is a spiny rat species [3] found in Brazil . This species is named after the collector Alphonso Robert, who collected the holotype of this species in 1901. [4]

Morphological, karyological, and mitochondrial DNA (cytochrome b) data indicate that Proechimys oris is likely a junior synonym of P. roberti.[2]

Phylogeny

Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P. roberti belongs to the so-called guyannensis group of Proechimys species, and shares closer phylogenetic affinities with the other member of this clade: P. guyannensis.[5][6][7]

Species-level cladogram of the genus Proechimys.

References

  1. Weksler, M. (2016). "Proechimys roberti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T18294A22207886. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T18294A22207886.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/18294/22207886. Retrieved 19 November 2021. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Marcelo, Weksler; R., Bonvicino, Cibele; B., Otazu, Ivone; S., Silva, José (2001-02-01). "Status of Proechimys Roberti and P. Oris (Rodentia: Echimyidae) from Eastern Amazonia and Central Brazil" (in en). Journal of Mammalogy 82 (1): 109–122. doi:10.1644/1545-1542(2001)082<0109:soprap>2.0.co;2. ISSN 0022-2372. 
  3. Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Species Proechimys roberti". 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=13400503. 
  4. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2009). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 343. ISBN 9780801893049. 
  5. 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. 
  6. 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. 
  7. 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. 

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