Mouse-tailed Atlantic Spiny-rat

Mouse-tailed Atlantic Spiny-rat
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Echimyidae
Genus:	Trinomys
Species:	T. myosuros
Binomial name
Trinomys myosuros (Lichtenstein, 1830)
Synonyms
Proechimys myosuros

The Mouse-tailed Atlantic Spiny-rat, Trinomys myosuros, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil.

References

1. ^ Brito, D., Leite, Y. & Patterson, B. (2008). Trinomys myosuros. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 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.