Mexican Hairy Dwarf Porcupine

Mexican Hairy Dwarf Porcupine
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Erethizontidae
Genus:	Sphiggurus
Species:	S. mexicanus
Binomial name
Sphiggurus mexicanus (Kerr, 1792)

The Mexican Hairy Dwarf Porcupine or Mexican Tree Porcupine (Sphiggurus mexicanus) is a species of rodent in the family Erethizontidae.^[2] It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, possibly Belize, and possibly Nicaragua.

References

1. ^ Pino, J., Vázquez, E., Reid, F. & Cuarón, A. D. (2008). Sphiggurus mexicanus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2009.
2. ^ Woods, Charles A.; Kilpatrick, C. William (16 November 2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi (pp. 1538-1600)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400120.