Armored Rat

Taxobox
name = Armored Rat
fossil_range = Recent


status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Echimyidae
subfamilia = Eumysopinae
genus = "Hoplomys"
genus_authority = J. A. Allen, 1908
species = "H. gymnurus"
binomial = "Hoplomys gymnurus"
binomial_authority = (Thomas, 1897)
synonyms = The Armored Rat ("Hoplomys gymnurus") is a species of rodent in the Echimyidae family. It is monotypic within the genus "Hoplomys". It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/10259/all Hoplomys gymnurus] . [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.