Biology:Stump-tailed porcupine

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Short description: Species of rodent

Stump-tailed porcupine
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Erethizontidae
Genus: Coendou
Species:
C. rufescens
Binomial name
Coendou rufescens
(Gray, 1865)

The stump-tailed porcupine (Coendou rufescens) is a species of rodent in the family Erethizontidae.[2] It is found mainly in Colombia, with a few records from Ecuador.

This species was formerly sometimes assigned to Echinoprocta,[2] a genus no longer recognized since genetic studies showed it to nest within Coendou.[3] Its closest relative is the Andean porcupine (Coendou quichua).[3]

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