Orange-spined Hairy Dwarf Porcupine

Orange-spined Hairy Dwarf Porcupine
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Erethizontidae
Genus:	Sphiggurus
Species:	S. villosus
Binomial name
Sphiggurus villosus (Cuvier, 1822)

The Orange-spined Hairy Dwarf Porcupine, Sphiggurus villosus, is a porcupine species from the family Erethizontidae^[2] endemic to southern Brazil.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Leite, Y. & Patterson, B. (2008). Sphiggurus villosus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2009.
2. ^ Woods, Charles A.; Kilpatrick, C. William (16 November 2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi (pp. 1538-1600)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400128. 

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