Sphiggurus mexicanus (Kerr 1792)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Erethizontidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1545-1550 : 1549

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scientific name

Sphiggurus mexicanus (Kerr 1792)
status

 

Sphiggurus mexicanus (Kerr 1792) View in CoL

[Coendou] mexicanus Kerr 1792 View in CoL , in: Linnaeus, Anim. Kingdom, Vol. 1: 214.

Type Locality: Mexico, in the mountains.

Vernacular Names: Mexican Hairy Dwarf Porcupine.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Sphiggurus mexicanus subsp. mexicanus Kerr 1792

Subspecies Sphiggurus mexicanus subsp. laenatus Thomas 1903

Subspecies Sphiggurus mexicanus subsp. yucataniae Thomas 1902

Distribution: San Luis Potosi and Yucatan ( Mexico) to W Panama, to 3,000 m ( Emmons and Feer, 1997).

Conservation: CITES – Appendix III ( Honduras); IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Emmons and Feer (1997:222) indicated that the small forms from Chiriquí, Panama had been recognized as a distinct species (laenatus).

Emmons, L. H., and F. Feer. 1997. Neotropical rainforest mammals. A field guide. Second edition, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 307 pp., 36 pls.

Kerr, R. 1792. The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; class I: Mammalia. London, J. Murray & R. Faulder, 664 pp.

Thomas, O. 1903. Notes on Neotropical mammals of the genera Felis, Hapale, Oryzomys, Akodon, and Ctenomys, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 7, 12: 234 - 243.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Erethizontidae

SubFamily

Erethizontinae

Genus

Sphiggurus