White-spined Atlantic Spiny-rat

Taxobox | name = White-spined Atlantic Spiny-rat
status = NT
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Echimyidae
genus = "Trinomys"
species = "T. albispinus"
binomial = "Trinomys albispinus"
binomial_authority = (Geoffroy, 1838)
subdivision_ranks = Subspecies
subdivision ="T. a. albispinus" Geoffrey, 1838)
"T. a. minor" (Reis & Pessôa, 1995
"T. a. serotinus (Thomas, 1921)
synonyms = "Proechimys albispinus"

The White-spined Atlantic Spiny-rat, "Trinomys albispinus", is a spiny rat species from South America. It is endemic to Brazil. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/18272/all Proechimys albispinus] . [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.