Red Crested Soft-furred Spiny-rat

Taxobox
name = Red Crested Soft-furred Spiny-rat


status = VU
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Echimyidae
genus = "Diplomys"
species = "D. rufodorsalis"
binomial = "Diplomys rufodorsalis"
binomial_authority = (J.A. Allen, 1899)
synonyms = The Red Crested Soft-furred Spiny-rat ("Diplomys rufodorsalis") is a species of rodent in the Echimyidae family.It is endemic to Colombia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/6664/all Diplomys rufodorsalis] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
*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.