Stump-tailed Porcupine

Taxobox
name = Stump-tailed Porcupine


status = LR/lc
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Erethizontidae
subfamilia = Erethizontinae
genus = "Echinoprocta"
genus_authority = Gray, 1865
species = "E. rufescens"
binomial = "Echinoprocta rufescens"
binomial_authority = Gray, 1865
synonyms = The Stump-tailed Porcupine ("Echinoprocta rufescens") is a species of rodent in the Erethizontidae family. It is monotypic within the genus "Echinoprocta".It is endemic to Colombia.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/7010/all Echinoprocta rufescens] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
*Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. Pp 1538-1600 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.