Streaked dwarf porcupine | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Erethizontidae |
Genus: | Coendou |
Species: | C. ichillus
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Binomial name | |
Coendou ichillus Voss & da Silva, 2001
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Range of C. ichillus |
The streaked dwarf porcupine (Coendou ichillus) is a porcupine species in the family Erethizontidae.[2] It is known from the lowlands (below an altitude of 400 m) of eastern Ecuador, and may be present in Peru as well.[1] It appears to be nocturnal and arboreal in its habits.[1]
This species was formerly sometimes assigned to Sphiggurus,[2] a genus no longer recognized since genetic studies showed it to be polyphyletic.[3] Its closest relatives are the frosted hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou pruinosus) and the brown hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou vestitus).[3]