Woolly-headed Spiny Tree-rat

Woolly-headed Spiny Tree-rat
Woolly-headed Spiny Tree-rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Genus: Mesomys
Species: M. leniceps
Binomial name
Mesomys leniceps
Thomas, 1926

The Woolly-headed Spiny Tree-rat (Mesomys leniceps) is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae. It is endemic to Peru.

References

  1. ^ Zeballos, H., Vivar, E. & Patterson, B. (2008). Mesomys leniceps. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 January 2009.
  • 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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