Makalata armata (I. Geoffrey, 1830) . Rev. ZooL, 1:101.

TYPE LOCALITY: French Guiana, Cayenne .

DISTRIBUTION: Andes of N. Ecuador and Colombia; Venezuela; Guianas; Tobago; Trinidad; perhaps Martinique.

COMMENT: Formerly included in Echimys; transferred to Makalata by Husson, 1978:445. Corbet and Hill, 1980:194, listed this species in Echimys . Martinique record probably erroneous; see Hall, 1981: 1180.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410029005001001 as Echimys armatus .