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Bahia Porcupine
Sphiggurus insidiosus (Olfers, 1818)
First described in: Neue Bibl. Reisenb. p.211
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
COMMENT: Formerly included in Coendou; see Husson, 1978: 484; also see comment under Sphiggurus.
Order Rodentia (Part 6)
discussion
COMMENTS: Formerly included in Coendou; see Husson (1978: 484), and comment under Sphiggurus. Emmons and Feer (1990: 199 - 200) considered melanurus Wagner, 1842, to be a separate species (Black-tailed Hairy Dwarf Porcupine).
Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi
conservation
Conservation: Unknown. IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as S. insidiosus, Extinct as S. pallidus.
Order Rodentia - Family Erethizontidae
discussion
Discussion: Reviewed by Voss and Angermann (1997), who included pallidus. Husson (1978) placed in Sphiggurus and included melanurus but see Voss and Angermann (1997). Karyotype has 2 n = 62 and FN = 76 (Lima, 1994).
Order Rodentia - Family Erethizontidae
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Sphiggurus insidiosus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2437606.