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Roosmalen's dwarf porcupine
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Erethizontidae
Genus:	Coendou
Species:	C. roosmalenorum
Binomial name
Coendou roosmalenorum Voss & da Silva, 2001
Synonyms
Sphiggurus roosmalenorus (Voss & da Silva, 2001)

Roosmalen's dwarf porcupine (Coendou roosmalenorum) is a porcupine species from the New World porcupine family likely endemic to northern Brazil. Only three specimens were known at the time, and only one had a collection locality. It is named for Marc van Roosmalen and his son Tomas, whose collections from the middle Madeira included the first known specimens. It was soon assigned to the genus Sphiggurus, although this genus was not recognized by the authors. Genetic studies in 2013 have since showed Sphiggurus to be polyphyletic (this taxon was omitted from the study). Nonetheless it is commonly classified as Sphiggurus roosmalenorum. Coendou roosmalenorum may be misspelled due to a conflicting basionym combination.

References

1. Roach, N.; Naylor, L. (2016). "Coendou roosmalenorum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T136518A22214051. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T136518A22214051.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. pp. 1538–1600. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
3. ^ Voss, Robert S.; da Silva, Maria N. F. (31 October 2001). "Revisionary Notes on Neotropical Porcupines (Rodentia: Erethizontidae). 2. A Review of the Coendou vestitus Group with Descriptions of Two New Species from Amazonia" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (3351): 24–32. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
4. Voss, R. S.; Hubbard, C.; Jansa, S. A. (February 2013). "Phylogenetic Relationships of New World Porcupines (Rodentia, Erethizontidae): Implications for Taxonomy, Morphological Evolution, and Biogeography" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (3769): 1–36. doi:10.1206/3769.2. S2CID 55426177.
5. "ITIS - Report: Sphiggurus roosmalenorum".
6. "Sphiggurus roosmalenorum (Voss & da Silva, 2001)".
7. "Coendou roosmalenorum Voss & da Silva, 2001".

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