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Giant Atlantic tree-rat
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Echimyidae
Tribe:	Echimyini
Genus:	Phyllomys
Species:	P. thomasi
Binomial name
Phyllomys thomasi (H. von Ihering, 1897)

The giant Atlantic tree-rat (Phyllomys thomasi) is a spiny rat species from Brazil. It is endemic to São Sebastião Island off the coast of São Paulo State. The island is largely protected by the Ilhabela State Park.

References

1. ^ Leite, Y.; Loss, C. (2016). "Phyllomys thomasi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T6989A22210762. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T6989A22210762.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
2. Parque Estadual de Ilhabela (in Portuguese), Parque Estadual de Ilhabela, retrieved 2016-12-23

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• IUCN Red List endangered species
• Phyllomys
• Taxa named by Hermann von Ihering
• Rodents of Brazil
• Endemic mammals of Brazil
• Mammals described in 1897
• Spiny rat stubs