Dark-caped Atlantic spiny rat

The dark-caped Atlantic spiny rat or Mirapitanga spiny rat (Trinomys mirapitanga), is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil.

Dark-caped Atlantic spiny-rat
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Echimyidae
Subfamily:	Euryzygomatomyinae
Genus:	Trinomys
Species:	T. mirapitanga
Binomial name
Trinomys mirapitanga Lara, Patton and Hingst-Zaher, 2002

Also known as the Pau Brazil Spiny Rat, it is known only from specimens found at two locations on the southern Bahia coast, the Pau-Brasil Ecological Station and the Fazenda São João.^[2]