Simon's Spiny-rat

Taxobox | name = Simon's Spiny-rat
status = LR/lc
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Echimyidae
genus = "Proechimys"
species = "P. simonsi"
binomial = "Proechimys simonsi"
binomial_authority = Thomas, 1900
synonyms ="hendeei" Thomas, 1926

The Simon's Spiny-rat, "Proechimys simonsi", is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/18286/all Proechimys hendeei] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 30 July 2007.
* [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.