Santa Marta porcupine

Santa Marta porcupine
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Erethizontidae
Genus:	Coendou
Species:	C. sanctamartae
Binomial name
Coendou sanctamartae Allen, 1904

The Santa Marta porcupine (Coendou sanctamartae) is a species of rodent in the family Erethizontidae. It is known from dry forests on the lower slopes of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and Serranía del Perijá mountains of northern Colombia, at altitudes below 500 and 1100 m, respectively, and intervening lowlands, and may also be present in nearby parts of Venezuela.^[1] It has sometimes been described as a subspecies of C. prehensilis.^[2] Its karyotype has 2n = 74, FN = 82.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Tirira, D., Boada, C., Weksler, M., Anderson, R.P. & Gómez-Laverde, M. (2008). Coendou sanctamartae. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 August 2009.
2. ^ Woods, Charles A.; Kilpatrick, C. William (16 November 2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi (pp. 1538-1600)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 1547. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400103.