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Brown Hairy Dwarf Porcupine
Sphiggurus vestitus (Thomas, 1899)
First described in: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7 vol.4 p.284
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Discussion: Reviewed by Voss and da Silva (2001), who included Sphiggurus in Coendou. Includes pruinosus according to Cabrera (1961), Concepción 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).
Order Rodentia - Family Erethizontidae
distribution
Distribution: Colombia, small area of the E Andean cordillera about 60 km WNW of Bogotá at about 1300 m.
Order Rodentia - Family Erethizontidae
discussion
COMMENT: Includes pruinosus; see Cabrera, 1961: 284, but also see Handley, 1976, Brigham Young Univ. Sci. Bull. Biol. Ser., 20 (5): 55, who listed pruinosus as a distinct species, without comment. Formerly included in Coendou; see comment under Sphiggurus.
Order Rodentia (Part 6)
distribution
DISTRIBUTION: Colombia; W. Venezuela south of Lake Maracaibo.
Order Rodentia (Part 6)
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2437607.