Napo spiny rat
Species of mammals belonging to the spiny rat family of rodents
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The Napo spiny rat (Proechimys quadruplicatus) is a spiny rat species[2] found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.
| Napo spiny rat | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Echimyidae |
| Subfamily: | Echimyinae |
| Tribe: | Myocastorini |
| Genus: | Proechimys |
| Species: | P. quadruplicatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Proechimys quadruplicatus Hershkovitz, 1948 | |
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Phylogeny
Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P. quadruplicatus belongs to the so-called goeldii group of Proechimys species, and shares closer phylogenetic affinities with the other members of this clade: P. steerei and P. goeldii.[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] |