Colombian Spiny-rat

Colombian Spiny-rat
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Echimyidae
Genus:	Proechimys
Species:	P. canicollis
Binomial name
Proechimys canicollis (J.A. Allen, 1899)

The Colombian Spiny-rat (Proechimys canicollis) is a species of rodent in the Echimyidae family. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela.

References

1. ^ Gómez-Laverde, M. & Aguillera, M. (2008). Proechimys canicollis. 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.