Guyenne Spiny-rat

Taxobox | name = Guyenne Spiny-rat
status = LC
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Echimyidae
genus = "Proechimys"
species = "P. guyannensis"
binomial = "Proechimys guyannensis"
binomial_authority = (E. Geoffroy, 1803)
synonyms = "cayennensis" Desmarest, 1817
subdivision_ranks = Subspecies
subdivision ="P. g. arabupu" Moojen, 1948
"P. g. arescens" Osgood, 1944
"P. g. cherriei" Thomas, 1899
"P. g. guyannensis" (E. Geoffroy, 1803)
"P. g. riparum" Moojen, 1948
"P. g. vacillator" Thomas, 1903

The Guyenne Spiny-rat, "Proechimys guyannensis", or Cayenne Spiny Rat, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guyana, Guyana, Surinam and Venezuela.

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.