- Animals
- ›Chordates
- ›Vertebrates
- ›Mammals
- ›Therians
- ›Placental Mammals
- ›Primates, Rodents, and Allies
- ›Rodents
- ›Ctenohystricans
- ›Hystricognaths
- ›Degus, Hutias, Tuco-tucos, and Allies
- ›Spiny Rats and Hutias
- ›Echimyines
- ›Arboreal Spiny Rats
Soft-furred Spiny Rats
Diplomys
Diplomys is a genus of rodent in the family Echimyidae. They are found in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Colombia and Panama.
2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Rufous Soft-furred Spiny Rat
speciesDiplomys labilis

Colombian Soft-furred Spiny Rat
speciesDiplomys caniceps
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Diplomys in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 43913.