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Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Echimyidae
Tribe:	Echimyini
Genus:	Phyllomys
Species:	P. nigrispinus
Binomial name
Phyllomys nigrispinus (Wagner, 1842)

The black-spined Atlantic tree-rat, (Phyllomys nigrispinus), is a South American spiny rat species in the family Echimyidae. It is found in southeastern Brazil, where it inhabits moist broadleaf forest and semideciduous forest in the Atlantic Forest region. It is arboreal and is believed to build nests of leaves in trees. Its karyotype has 2n=52.

References

1. ^ Leite, Y.; Loss, C. (2016). "Phyllomys nigrispinus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T6984A22210294. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T6984A22210294.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
2. Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1581. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

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• IUCN Red List least concern species
• Rodents of Brazil
• Endemic mammals of Brazil
• Fauna of the Atlantic Forest
• Phyllomys
• Mammals described in 1842
• Taxa named by Johann Andreas Wagner
• Spiny rat stubs