Stump-tailed Porcupine

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Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Erethizontidae
Subfamily:	Erethizontinae
Genus:	Echinoprocta Gray, 1865
Species:	E. rufescens

Binomial name

Echinoprocta rufescens
Gray, 1865

The Stump-tailed Porcupine (Echinoprocta rufescens) is a species of rodent in the Erethizontidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Echinoprocta. It is endemic to Colombia.

[edit] References

Baillie, J. 1996. Echinoprocta rufescens. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. Pp 1538-1600 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.

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Extant species of family Erethizontidae (New World porcupines)

Kingdom: Animalia · Phylum: Chordata · Class: Mammalia · Order: Rodentia · Suborder: Hystricomorpha · Infraorder: Hystricognathi · Parvorder: Caviomorpha

Erethizontinae

Coendou (Prehensile-tailed porcupines)	Bicolor-spined Porcupine (Coendou bicolor) · Koopman's Porcupine (Coendou nycthemera) · Brazilian Porcupine (Coendou prehensilis) · Rothschild's Porcupine (Coendou rothschildi)

Echinoprocta	Stump-tailed Porcupine (Echinoprocta rufescens)

Erethizon	North American Porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum)

Sphiggurus (Dwarf porcupines)	Long-tailed Hairy Dwarf Porcupine (Sphiggurus ichillus) · Bahia Hairy Dwarf Porcupine (Sphiggurus insidiosus) · Black-tailed Hairy Dwarf Porcupine (Sphiggurus melanursus) · Mexican Hairy Dwarf Porcupine (Sphiggurus mexicanus) · Frosted Hairy Dwarf Porcupine (Sphiggurus pruinosus) · Quichua Hairy Dwarf Porcupine (Sphiggurus quichua) · Roosmalen’s Dwarf Porcupine (Sphiggurus roosmalenorum) · Paraguaian Hairy Dwarf Porcupine (Sphiggurus spinosus) · Brown Hairy Dwarf Porcupine (Sphiggurus vestitus) · Orange-spined Hairy Dwarf Porcupine (Sphiggurus villosus)