Boyacá Spiny Rat

Taxobox
name = Boyacá Spiny Rat


status = LR/lc
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Echimyidae
genus = "Proechimys"
species = "P. chrysaeolus"
binomial = "Proechimys chrysaeolus"
binomial_authority = (Thomas, 1898)
synonyms = The Boyacá Spiny Rat ("Proechimys chrysaeolus") is a species of rodent in the Echimyidae family. It is endemic to Colombia.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/18278/all Proechimys chrysaeolus] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 30 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.