Patton's spiny rat
Species of mammals belonging to the spiny rat family of rodents
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Patton's spiny-rat (Proechimys pattoni) is a spiny rat species[2] found in Brazil and Peru.
| Patton's 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. pattoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Proechimys pattoni da Silva, 1998 | |
Phylogeny
Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P. pattoni belongs to the so-called gardneri group of Proechimys species. Within this clade, Proechimys pattoni is more closely related to P. gardneri than to P. kulinae.[3][2][4][5]
| 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][2][4][5] |