Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi Author Charles A. Woods text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 771 806 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353083 1-56098-217-9 7353083 Echimys pictus (Pictet, 1841) . Notice Anim. Nouv. Mus . Geneve, p. 29 . TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil , Bahia . DISTRIBUTION: E Brazil in S Bahia near Ilhéus. COMMENTS: Treated as a species of Nelomys by Emmons and Feer (1990:218) , but as Isothrix pictus by Patton and Emmons (1985:12) and Corbet and Hill (1991:207) .