Coendou
Taxonavigation
editFamilia: Erethizontidae
Subfamilia: Erethizontinae
Genus: Coendou
Species (16):
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. rufescens –
C. speratus –
C. spinosus –
C. vestitus
Name
editCoendou Lacépède, 1799: 11
- Type species: Hystrix prehensilis Linnaeus, 1758, by monotypy.
References
editPrimary references
edit- 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
edit- 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
editEnglish: Prehensile-tailed Porcupine
português do Brasil: Ouriços-cacheiros
português do Brasil: Ouriços-cacheiros
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