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O'Connell's spiny rat
Species of mammals belonging to the spiny rat family of rodents From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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O'Connell's spiny-rat (Proechimys oconnelli) is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae.[2] It is endemic to Colombia.
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Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P. oconnelli belongs to the so-called semispinosus group of Proechimys species, and shares closer phylogenetic affinities with the other member of this clade: P. semispinosus.[3][4][5]
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The cladogram has been reconstructed from morphological characters and mitochondrial DNA (cytochrome b) sequences.[3][4][6][5] |
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