Frosted Hairy Dwarf Porcupine
Sphiggurus pruinosus (Thomas, 1905)
First described in: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7 vol.16 p.310
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Discussion: Included in vestitus by Cabrera (1961), Concepcion and Molinari (1991), Woods (1993), and Soriano and Ochoa (1997), but see Voss and da Silva (2001) for a discussion of the morphological distinctiveness of these two taxa. Assigned to vestitus group based on presence of bristle-quills (Voss and da Silva, 2001). Karyotype has 2 n = 42 and FN = 76 (Concepción and Molinari, 1991).
Order Rodentia - Family Erethizontidae
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Type Locality: Venezuela, Montañas de la Pedregosa near Mérida, 2500 m.
Order Rodentia - Family Erethizontidae
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 4264798.