Napo Spiny-rat

Napo Spiny-rat
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Echimyidae
Genus:	Proechimys
Species:	P. quadruplicatus
Binomial name
Proechimys quadruplicatus Hershkovitz, 1948
Synonyms
amphichoricus Moojen, 1948

The Napo Spiny-rat, Proechimys quadruplicatus, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.

References

1. ^ Ochoa, J. & Aguillera, M. (2008). Proechimys quadruplicatus. 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.