Amazonian long-tailed porcupine
| Amazonian long-tailed porcupine | |
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| Coendou longicaudatus in Goiás, Brazil | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Erethizontidae |
| Genus: | Coendou |
| Species: | C. longicaudatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Coendou longicaudatus Daudin, 1802
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The Amazonian long-tailed porcupine (Coendou longicaudatus), also known as Cerrado's long-tailed porcupine, is a species of rodent in the family Erethizontidae, the New World porcupines.[1] Found across most of South America, it was first described by François Marie Daudin in 1802.[2] It was for some time considered a subspecies of the Brazilian porcupine (Coendou prehensilis). C. prehensilis was split into three distinct species in 2021:[3]
- the Brazilian porcupine, C. prehensilis;
- the Amazonian long-tailed porcupine, C. longicaudatus; and
- the Baturite porcupine, C. baturitensis.
The species has been recorded as exhibiting albinism[4] and is susceptible to several fungal infections.[5]
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References
[edit]- ^ a b "Coendou longicaudatus (id=1006591)". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. American Society of Mammalogists. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
- ^ Daudin, F.M. (1802-10-21). Buffon, G.-L.L. de. (ed.). "Tableau des divisions, sous-divisions, ordres et genres des mammifères, par le Cen Lacepéde; Avec l'indication de toutes les espèces décrites par Buffon, et leur distribution dans chacun des genres". Histoire naturelle par Buffon. Quadrupèdes. Tome quatorzième. Paris: P. Didot et Firmin Didot: 143–195. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64910. OCLC 30927141 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Menezes, Fernando Heberson; Feijó, Anderson; Fernandes-Ferreira, Hugo; da Costa, Itayguara Ribeiro; Cordeiro-Estrela, Pedro (2021). "Integrative systematics of Neotropical porcupines of Coendou prehensilis complex (Rodentia: Erethizontidae)". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 59 (8): 2410–2439. doi:10.1111/jzs.12529. ISSN 1439-0469.
- ^ Pommer-Barbosa, Raul Alfonso; Alvares Oliveira, Marcela; da Cruz Prestes, André Luiz (2022). "First record of albinism in Coendou (Coendou) longicaudatus Daudin, 1802 (Rodentia, Erethizontidae) in the state of Rondônia, Brazil". Notas sobre Mamíferos Sudamericanos (in Spanish). 04 (1): 001–007. doi:10.31687/SaremNMS22.6.1. ISSN 2618-4788.
- ^ Caldeira, Ana Carolina Lemos; Hennig, Morgana M.; Costa, Marco T. D.S.; Calvache, Tatiana G. P.; dos Santos, Ícaro G.; de Aguiar, Daniel M.; Morgado, Thais O.; Colodel, Edson M.; Nakazato, Luciano; Dutra, Valéria (2025-02-20). "Infection by Histoplasma capsulatum and Candida tropicalis in a Coendou longicaudatus boliviensis (neotropical porcupine)". Brazilian Journal of Microbiology. doi:10.1007/s42770-025-01643-8. ISSN 1517-8382.
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