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Species of mammals belonging to the spiny rat family of rodents
The stiff-spine spiny-rat (Proechimys echinothrix ) or Tefe spiny rat , is a
spiny rat species
[2] found in
Brazil and
Colombia .
Phylogeny
Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P. echinothrix represents one independent evolutionary lineage within the genus Proechimys , without clear phylogenetic affinity for any of the 6 major groups of species.
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Species-level cladogram of the genus Proechimys .
The cladogram has been reconstructed from morphological characters and mitochondrial DNA (
cytochrome b ) sequences.
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References
^ Patton, J.; Percequillo, A. (2016).
"Proechimys echinothrix " .
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 : e.T29463A22207611.
doi :
10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T29463A22207611.en . Retrieved 13 November 2021 .
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Da Silva, Maria Nazareth F. (1998).
"Four New species of spiny rats of the genus Proechimys (Rodentia : Echimyidae) from the Western Amazon of Brazil" . Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . 111 : 436–471.
ISSN
0006-324X .
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Patton, James L. (1987).
"Species groups of spiny rats, genus Proechimys (Rodentia: Echimyidae)" . Fieldiana: Zoology, Studies in Neotropical Mammalogy: Essays in Honor of Philip Hershkovitz . 39 : 305–345.
ISSN
0015-0754 .
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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 .
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Patton, James L. ; Leite, Rafael N. (2015-03-09). "Genus Proechimys J. A. Allen, 1899". In Patton, James L.; Pardiñas, Ulyses F. J.; D’Elía, Guillermo (eds.).
Mammals of South America, Volume 2: Rodents . University of Chicago Press. pp. 950–989.
ISBN
9780226169606 .