Tuft-tailed Spiny Tree Rat

Taxobox | name = Tuft-tailed Spiny Tree Rat
fossil_range = Recent
status = LR/lc
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Echimyidae
subfamilia = Eumysopinae
genus = "Lonchothrix"
genus_authority = Thomas, 1920
species = "L. emiliae"
binomial = "Lonchothrix emiliae"
binomial_authority = Thomas, 1920

The Tuft-tailed Spiny Tree Rat, "Lonchothrix emiliae", is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil. It is the only species in the genus "Lonchothrix".

References

* [http://www.natureserve.org/infonatura/ 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.