Coendou

Coendou prehensilis
Taxonavigation
Familia: Erethizontidae
Subfamilia: Erethizontinae
Genus: Coendou
Species (18):
C. baturitensis –
C. bicolor –
C. ichillus –
C. insidiosus –
C. longicaudatus –
C. melanurus –
C. mexicanus –
C. nycthemera –
C. prehensilis –
C. pruinosus –
C. quichua –
C. roosmalenorum –
C. rothschildi –
C. rufescens –
C. speratus –
C. spinosus –
C. vestitus –
C. vossi
Name
Coendou Lacépède, 1799: 11
- Type species: Hystrix prehensilis Linnaeus, 1758, by monotypy.
References
Primary references
- Lacepède, B.G.E. 1799. Discours d'ouverture et de clôture du cours d'histoire naturelle. Donné dans le Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, l'an VII de la République, et Tableaux methodiques des mammifères et des oiseaux. Paris. MDZ. Discours pp. 1–55. Mammifères pp. 1–18. Oiseaux pp. 1–20. Reference page.
Additional references
- Pontes, A.R.M., Gadelha, J.R., Melo, E.R.A., Sá, F.B., Loss, A.C., Caldara Junior, V., Costa, L.P. & Leite, Y.L.R. 2013. A new species of porcupine, genus Coendou (Rodentia: Erethizontidae) from the Atlantic forest of northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3636(3): 421–438. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3636.3.2
Reference page.
- Gregory, T., Lunde, D., Zamora-Meza, H.T. & Carrasco-Rueda, F. 2015. Records of Coendou ichillus (Rodentia, Erethizontidae) from the Lower Urubamba Region of Peru. Zookeys 509: 109–121. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.509.9821
Reference page.
Vernacular names
English: Prehensile-tailed Porcupine
português do Brasil: Ouriços-cacheiros
português do Brasil: Ouriços-cacheiros
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