| Robert's Spiny-rat | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Echimyidae |
| Subfamily: | Echimyinae |
| Tribe: | Myocastorini |
| Genus: | Proechimys |
| Species: | P. roberti
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| Binomial name | |
| Proechimys roberti Thomas, 1901
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| Synonyms | |
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P. oris Thomas, 19042 | |
Robert's spiny-rat (Proechimys roberti) or Para spiny rat, is a spiny rat species 3 found in Brazil. This species is named after the collector Alphonso Robert, who collected the holotype of this species in 1901.4
Morphological, karyological, and mitochondrial DNA (cytochrome b) data indicate that Proechimys oris is likely a junior synonym of P. roberti.2
Phylogeny
Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P. roberti belongs to the so-called guyannensis group of Proechimys species, and shares closer phylogenetic affinities with the other member of this clade: P. guyannensis.567
| Species-level cladogram of the genus Proechimys. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The cladogram has been reconstructed from morphological characters and mitochondrial DNA (cytochrome b) sequences.5687 |
References
References
- Weksler, M. (2016). "Proechimys roberti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016 e.T18294A22207886. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T18294A22207886.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- Marcelo, Weksler; R., Bonvicino, Cibele; B., Otazu, Ivone; S., Silva, José (2001-02-01). "Status of Proechimys Roberti and P. Oris (Rodentia: Echimyidae) from Eastern Amazonia and Central Brazil". Journal of Mammalogy. 82 (1): 109–122. doi:10.1644/1545-1542(2001)082<0109:soprap>2.0.co;2. ISSN 0022-2372.
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- Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2009). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 343. ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9.
- Patton, James L. (1987). "Species groups of spiny rats, genus Proechimys (Rodentia: Echimyidae)". Fieldiana: Zoology, Studies in Neotropical Mammalogy: Essays in Honor of Philip Hershkovitz. 39: 305–345. ISSN 0015-0754.
- Da Silva, Maria Nazareth F. (1998). "Four New species of spiny rats of the genus Proechimys (Rodentia: Echimyidae) from the Western Amazon of Brazil". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 111: 436–471. ISSN 0006-324X.
- Patton, James L.; Leite, Rafael N. (2015-03-09). "Genus Proechimys J. A. Allen, 1899". In Patton, James L.; Pardiñas, Ulyses F. J.; D'Elía, Guillermo (eds.). Mammals of South America, Volume 2: Rodents. University of Chicago Press. pp. 950–989. ISBN 978-0-226-16960-6.
- Patton, James L.; Da Silva, Maria Nazareth F.; Malcolm, Jay R. (2000-01-01). "Mammals of the Rio Juruá and the evolutionary and ecological diversification of Amazonia". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 244: 1–306. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)244<0001:MOTRJA>2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/1593. ISSN 0003-0090.