| Frosted hairy dwarf porcupine | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Erethizontidae |
| Genus: | Coendou |
| Species: | C. pruinosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Coendou pruinosus Thomas, 1905 | |
The frosted hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou pruinosus) is a porcupine species in the family Erethizontidae from Colombia and northern and eastern Venezuela. It was formerly sometimes assigned to Sphiggurus, a genus no longer recognized since genetic studies showed it to be polyphyletic. The species lives in lowland tropical rainforest and cloud forest at elevations from 50 to 2,600 meters (160 to 8,530 ft). Its karyotype has 2n = 42 and FN = 76. Its closest relative is the brown hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou vestitus).
References
- ^ Delgado, C. (2016). "Coendou pruinosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T136485A22213797. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T136485A22213797.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ 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. 1549. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ 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.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Sphiggurus pruinosus | |
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