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Stump-tailed Porcupine
Coendou rufescens (J. E. Gray, 1865)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Rodentia - rodents »  family Erethizontidae - new world porcupines »  genus Coendou

Scientific synonyms

Coendou (Coendou) rufescens (J. E. Gray, 1865)
Echinoprocta rufescens (Gray, 1865)
Erethizon rufescens
Echinoprocton rufescens

Other names

= Short-tailed Porcupine

Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [7010]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Coendou rufescens (Gray, 1865)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1001250]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Coendou (Coendou) rufescens (J. E. Gray, 1865)]
Data retrieved on: 29 May 2025
EN Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Echinoprocta rufescens Gray, 1865]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Echinoprocta rufescens (Gray, 1865)]

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