Roosmalen's Dwarf Porcupine

Roosmalen's Dwarf Porcupine
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Erethizontidae
Genus:	Sphiggurus
Species:	S. roosmalenorum
Binomial name
Sphiggurus roosmalenorum (Voss & da Silva, 2001)

Roosmalen's Dwarf Porcupine, Sphiggurus roosmalenorum, is a porcupine species from the New World porcupine family endemic to northern Brazil.^[2] It is named for Marc van Roosmalen and his son Tomas, whose collections from the middle Madeira included the first known specimens.

References

1. ^ Leite, Y. & Patterson, B. (2008). Sphiggurus roosmalenorum. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 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.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400125. 

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• Voss R.S. & da Silva M.N.F. 2001. Revisionary Notes on Neotropical Porcupines (Rodentia: Erethizontidae). 2. A Review of the Coendou vestitus Group with Descriptions of Two New Species from Amazonia. American Museum Novitates 3351:24-32. [1]