Magdalena 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. magdalenae
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Binomial name | |
Proechimys magdalenae (Hershkovitz, 1948)
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The Magdalena spiny rat (Proechimys magdalenae) is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae.[2] It is endemic to Colombia.
Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P. magdalenae belongs to the so-called trinitatus group of Proechimys species, and shares closer phylogenetic affinities with the other members of this clade: P. trinitatus, P. mincae, P. guairae, P. poliopus, P. chrysaeolus, P. urichi, and P. hoplomyoides.[3][4][5][6]
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][4][5][6] |