Tome's spiny rat
Species of mammals belonging to the spiny rat family of rodents / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tome's spiny rat (Proechimys semispinosus), also known as Tomes' spiny rat[4] or the Central American spiny rat, is a species of spiny rat distributed from Honduras to Ecuador. The IUCN has assessed its conservation status as being of "least concern".
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Tome's spiny-rat[1] | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Echimyidae |
Subfamily: | Echimyinae |
Tribe: | Myocastorini |
Genus: | Proechimys |
Species: | P. semispinosus |
Binomial name | |
Proechimys semispinosus (Tomes, 1860) | |
Subspecies | |
P. s. burrus Bangs, 1901 | |
Synonyms[3] | |
P. gorgonae Bangs, 1905 |
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