- Sphiggurus
Taxobox | name = "Sphiggurus"
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image_caption =Mexican Hairy Dwarf Porcupine ("Sphiggurus mexicanus")
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis =Mammal ia
ordo =Rodent ia
familia = Erethizontidae
subfamilia =Erethizontinae
genus = "Sphiggurus"
genus_authority = F. Cuvier, 1825
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision ="Sphiggurus ichillus"
"Sphiggurus insidiosus"
"Sphiggurus melanurus"
"Sphiggurus mexicanus"
"Sphiggurus pruinosus"
"Sphiggurus roosmalenorum"
"Sphiggurus spinosus"
"Sphiggurus vestitus"
"Sphiggurus villosus""Sphiggurus" is a genus of
New World porcupine . It contains the following species:
*"Sphiggurus ichillus" - Streaked Dwarf Porcupine
*"Sphiggurus insidiosus" - Bahia Porcupine
*"Sphiggurus melanurus" - Black-tailed Hairy Dwarf Porcupine
*"Sphiggurus mexicanus" - Mexican Hairy Dwarf Porcupine
*"Sphiggurus pruinosus" - Frosted Hairy Dwarf Porcupine
*"Sphiggurus roosmalenorum" - Roosmalen's Dwarf Porcupine
*"Sphiggurus spinosus" - Paraguaian Hairy Dwarf Porcupine
*"Sphiggurus vestitus" - Brown Hairy Dwarf Porcupine
*"Sphiggurus villosus" - Orange-spined Hairy Dwarf PorcupineReferences
*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.
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