Tome's Spiny-rat

Tome's Spiny-rat Temporal range: Recent
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Echimyidae
Genus:	Proechimys
Species:	P. semispinosus
Binomial name
Proechimys semispinosus (Tome, 1860)
P. s. burrus Bangs, 1901 P. s. calidior Thomas, 1911 P. s. centralis (Thomas, 1896) P. s. colombianus Thomas, 1914 P. s. goldmani Bole, 1937 P. s. ignotus Kellogg, 1946 P. s. panamensis Thomas, 1900 P. s. rosa Thomas, 1900 P. s. rubellus Hollister, 1914 P. s. semispinosus (Tomes, 1860)
Synonyms
gorgonae Bangs, 1905

Tome's Spiny-rat (Proechimys semispinosus), also known as the Central American spiny rat, is a species of spiny rat distributed from Honduras to Ecuador. The IUCN classifies it as least concern under P. semispinosus and near threatened as P. gorgonae.

References

1. ^ Gómez-Laverde, M., Aguilera, M., Boada, C. & Timm, R. (2008). Proechimys semispinosus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 January 2009.

• Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. pp 1538–1600 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.