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Coendou Lacépède, 1799

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
GENUS
Published in
Tabl. Mamm. p.11

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Mammalia
order
Rodentia
family
Erethizontidae
genus
Coendou

Name

Synonyms
Coandu Fischer de Waldheim, 1814
Coendore Gray, 1821
Coendu Lesson, 1827
Coendus É.Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803
Cuandu Liais, 1872
Homonyms
Coendou Lacépède, 1799
Common names
Ağaç Porkupini in Turkish
Coandus in Portuguese
Coendous in English
Coendúes in Spanish
Greifstachler in German
Neotropical Porcupines in English
Porcospini in Italian
Prehensile-tailed Porcupine in English
Prehensile-tailed Porcupines in language.
Prehensile-tailed Porcupines in English
Puercoespines enanos in Spanish
Snohalepiggsvin in Norwegian Bokmål
Tree Porcupines in English
kierteishäntäpiikiköt in Finnish
koendu in Polish
kolumbianpiikiköt in Finnish
kuandu in Czech
ouriço-cacheiro in Portuguese
ouriços-cacheiros in Portuguese
pikkupiikiköt in Finnish
porco-espinho in Portuguese
porcos-espinhos in Portuguese
prehensile-tailed porcupine in English
Цепкохвостые дикобразы in Russian
オマキヤマアラシ属 in Japanese

Bibliographic References

  1. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  2. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  3. SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997
  4. SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB
  5. Tabl. Mamm.
  6. Voss, Robert S., 2011: Revisionary Notes on Neotropical Porcupines (Rodentia: Erethizontidae). 3. An Annotated Checklist of the Species of Coendou Lacépède, 1799. American Museum Novitates, no. 3720. 1-36.
  7. Voss, Robert S., Caldonia Hubbard, Sharon A. Jansa, 2013: Phylogenetic Relationships of New World Porcupines (Rodentia, Erethizontidae): Implications for Taxonomy, Morphological Evolution, and Biogeography. American Museum Novitates, no. 3769. 1-36.
  8. Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
  9. Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
  10. Wilson, Don E., T. E. Lacher Jr., and R. A. Mittermeier, eds., 2016: null. Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 6: Lagomorphs and Rodents I. 987.
  11. Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207.
  12. Woods, Charles A., and C. William Kilpatrick / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: Infraorder Hystricognathi Brandt, 1855. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2. 1538-1600.
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