White-faced Spiny Tree-rat

White-faced Spiny Tree-rat
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Echimyidae
Genus:	Echimys
Species:	E. chrysurus
Binomial name
Echimys chrysurus Zimmermann, 1780
Synonyms
Myoxus chrysurus Zimmermann, 1780 Echimys cristatus Desmarest, 1817 Echimys paleaceus (Lichtenstein, 1820)

The White-faced Spiny Tree-rat, Echimys chrysurus, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil, French Guyana, Guyana and Suriname.

References

1. ^ Catzeflis, F. & Patton, J. (2008). Echimys chrysurus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2009.

• Infonatura
• 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.