Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine
Species of rodent
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The Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou spinosus) is a porcupine species from the family Erethizontidae.[2] It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.
| Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Erethizontidae |
| Genus: | Coendou |
| Species: | C. spinosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Coendou spinosus (F. Cuvier, 1822) | |
They have a short tail and gray brown quills and feed on fruits, ant pupae, vegetables and roots.
This species was formerly sometimes assigned to Sphiggurus,[2] a genus no longer recognised since genetic studies showed it to be polyphyletic.[3] The population formerly recognised as the orange-spined hairy dwarf porcupine (Sphiggurus villosus)[4] has been reclassified to this species.[1] Its closest relatives are the bicolored-spined porcupine (Coendou bicolor) and the black dwarf porcupine (Coendou nycthemera).[3]
