Tome's Spiny Rat
Proechimys semispinosus (Tomes, 1860)
Also calledCasiragua Chocoana (spa) · Rat-épineux de Tomes (fra) · Ratto spinoso di Tome (ita) · Ratón de espina (spa) · Tomes-Kurzstachelratte (deu) · esmeraldasinpiikkirotta (fin) · gorgonanpiikkirotta (fin) · kolczakowiec środkowoamerykański (pol) · rata espinosa (spa) · ハントゲネズミ (jpn)
First described in: Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. vol.1860 p.265
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
child_taxa
Subspecies:: Subspecies Proechimys semispinosus subsp. semispinosus Tomes 1860 Subspecies Proechimys semispinosus subsp. burrus Bang 1901 Subspecies Proechimys semispinosus subsp. calidior Thomas 1911 Subspecies Proechimys semispinosus subsp. centralis Thomas 1896 Subspecies Proechimys semispinosus subsp. colombianus Thomas 1914 Subspecies Proechimys semispinosus subsp. goldmani Bole 1937 Subspecies Proechimys semispinosus subsp. ignotus Kellogg 1946 Subspecies Proechimys semispinosus subsp. panamensis Thomas 1900 Subspecies Proechimys semispinosus subsp. rosa Thomas 1900 Subspecies Proechimys semispinosus subsp. rubellus Hollister 1914
Order Rodentia - Family Echimyidae
conservation
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt) as P. gorgonae, Lower Risk (lc) as P. semispinosus.
Order Rodentia - Family Echimyidae
discussion
Discussion: Placed in semispinosus group (Patton, 1987). Formerly included in amphichoricus; see Reig et al. (1980) who used the name centralis for animals assigned to semispinosus from N Venezuela. Gardner (1983 b) discussed the taxonomic history of this species and corrected the type locality. Karyotype has 2 n = 30 and FN = 50 - 54 (Gardner and Emmons, 1984; Patton and Gardner, 1972). Includes gorgonae based on lack of karyotypic difference between populations on Gorgonae Isl and mainland of Colombia (Gómez-Laverde et al., 1990).
Order Rodentia - Family Echimyidae
discussion
COMMENTS: Subgenus Proechimys. Formerly included amphichoricus; see Reig et al. (1980) who employed the name centralis for animals assigned to semispinosus from N Venezuela. Gardner (1983 b) discussed the taxonomic history of this species and designated a new type locality. The chromosome no. is 2 n = 30; FN = 50 - 54.
Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi
Where it has been recorded
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2439789.