Order Rodentia (Part 6) Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 560 594 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353039 0-89327-235-3 7353039 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 .