Makalata

Makalata Temporal range: Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Echimyidae
Subfamily:	Echimyinae
Genus:	Makalata Husson, 1978
Species
Makalata didelphoides Makalata macrura Makalata obscura Makalata rhipidura

Makalata is a genus of rodent in the Echimyidae family. It contains the following species:

• Brazilian Spiny Tree Rat (Makalata didelphoides)
• Long-tailed Armored Tree-rat (Makalata macrura)
• Dusky Spiny Tree Rat (Makalata obscura)
• Peruvian Tree Rat (Makalata rhipidura)

Toromys grandis and Pattonomys occasius have been placed in Makalata by some authorities (such as Woods and Kilpatrick, 2005).

References

• 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.