O'Connell's Spiny-rat

O'Connell's Spiny-rat
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Echimyidae
Genus:	Proechimys
Species:	P. oconnelli
Binomial name
Proechimys oconnelli J.A. Allen, 1913

O'Connell's Spiny-rat (Proechimys oconnelli) is a species of rodent in the Echimyidae family. It is endemic to Colombia.

References

1. ^ Tirira, D., Boada, C., Weksler, M., Anderson, R. P> & Gómez-Laverde, M. (2008). Proechimys oconnelli. 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.