Short-tailed Spiny-rat

Taxobox | name = Short-tailed Spiny-rat
status = LC
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Echimyidae
genus = "Proechimys"
species = "P. brevicauda"
binomial = "Proechimys brevicauda"
binomial_authority = (Gunther, 1877)

The Short-tailed Spiny-rat, "Proechimys brevicauda", or Huallaga Spiny Rat, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Peru.

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.