- Stump-tailed Porcupine
Taxobox
name = Stump-tailed Porcupine
status = LR/lc
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum =Animalia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Mammalia
ordo =Rodentia
familia =Erethizontidae
subfamilia =Erethizontinae
genus = "Echinoprocta"
genus_authority = Gray, 1865
species = "E. rufescens"
binomial = "Echinoprocta rufescens"
binomial_authority = Gray, 1865
synonyms = The Stump-tailed Porcupine ("Echinoprocta rufescens") is a species ofrodent in theErethizontidae family. It ismonotypic within the genus "Echinoprocta".It is endemic toColombia .References
* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/7010/all Echinoprocta rufescens] . [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.
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