Bicolored-spined Porcupine

Bicolored-spined Porcupine
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Erethizontidae
Genus:	Coendou
Species:	C. bicolor
Binomial name
Coendou bicolor (Tschudi, 1844)
Subspecies
C. b. bicolor Tschudi, 1844 C. b. quichua Thomas, 1899 C. b. richardsoni Allen, 1913 C. b. simonsi Thomas, 1902

The Bicolored-spined Porcupine (Coendou bicolor) is a species of rodent in the Erethizontidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

The head and body of Coendou bicolor measure about 543 mm, and another 481 mm is tail. The body is covered with dense spines, pale yellow at the base and black-tipped, and significantly darker on the midback. The Bicolored-spined Porcupine has a fully prehensile tail that is primarily free of spines (Eisenberg, 1989).

References

1. ^ Dunnum, J. & Delgado, C. (2008). Coendou bicolor. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2009.

• Eisenberg, J. F. 1989. Mammals of the Neotropics, volume 1 - The Northern Neotropics. Pp 391. University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL.
• 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.