Colombian spiny-rat | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Echimyidae |
Subfamily: | Echimyinae |
Tribe: | Myocastorini |
Genus: | Proechimys |
Species: | P. canicollis
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Binomial name | |
Proechimys canicollis (J. A. Allen, 1899)
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The Colombian spiny-rat (Proechimys canicollis) is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae.[2] It is found in Colombia and Venezuela.
Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P. canicollis represents one independent evolutionary lineage within the genus Proechimys, without clear phylogenetic affinity for any of the 6 major groups of species.[3][4]
Species-level cladogram of the genus Proechimys. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The cladogram has been reconstructed from morphological characters and mitochondrial DNA (cytochrome b) sequences.[3][5][6][4] |