Thrichomys
Genus of mammals belonging to the spiny rat family of rodents
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Thrichomys is a genus of South American rodents in the family Echimyidae.[1] It contains at least five species, found in Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay.[2][3] They are as follows:
- Thrichomys apereoides - Common punaré
- Thrichomys fosteri - Foster's punaré
- Thrichomys inermis - Highlands punaré
- Thrichomys laurentius - Sao Lourenço punaré
- Thrichomys pachyurus - Paraguayan punaré
| Thrichomys | |
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| Thrichomys apereoides | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Echimyidae |
| Subfamily: | Echimyinae |
| Tribe: | Myocastorini |
| Genus: | Thrichomys Trouessart, 1880 |
| Type species | |
| Nelomys apereoides Lund, 1839 | |
| Species | |
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Thrichomys apereoides | |
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| Thrichomys distribution T. pachyurus in blue, T. apereoides in red, T. laurentius in green (yellow where overlapping apereoides), T. inermis in purple (entirely overlaps laurentius) | |
Phylogeny
The closest relatives of the genus Thrichomys are two clades consisting of pairs of Myocastorini genera: Callistomys (the painted tree-rat) and Myocastor (the coypu or nutria) in one clade, and Hoplomys (the armored rat) and Proechimys in the other.
| Genus-level cladogram of the Myocastorini |
| The cladogram has been reconstructed from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA characters.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] |