Pacific Spiny-rat

Taxobox
name = Pacific Spiny-rat


status = LR/lc
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Echimyidae
genus = "Proechimys"
species = "P. decumanus"
binomial = "Proechimys decumanus"
binomial_authority = (Thomas, 1899)
synonyms = The Pacific Spiny-rat ("Proechimys decumanus") is a species of rodent in the Echimyidae family. It is found in Ecuador and Peru.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/18280/all Proechimys decumanus] . [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.