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Soft-spined Atlantic Spiny-rat
Trinomys dimidiatus (Günther, 1877)
Also calledRat-épineux de Rio de Janeiro (fra) · Rio-de-Janeiroa-Atlantikstachelratte (deu) · prakolczak miękkokolcy (pol) · rionpiikkirotta (fin) · ブラジルヤワゲトゲネズミ (jpn)
First described in: Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. vol.1876 p.747
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
conservation
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Proechimys dimidiatus.
Order Rodentia - Family Echimyidae
discussion
Discussion: Reviewed by Pessôa and Reis (1993). Lara and Patton (2000) concluded that dimidiatus was the sister taxon of iheringi. Karyotype has 2 n = 56 (Pessôa and Reis, 1993).
Order Rodentia - Family Echimyidae
distribution
Distribution: E Brazil including the states of Rio de Janeiro and Distrito Federal.
Order Rodentia - Family Echimyidae
materials_examined
Type Locality: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, unknown probably SW Rio de Janeiro.
Order Rodentia - Family Echimyidae
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 4262940.