Order Rodentia - Family Erethizontidae
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2
1545
1550
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Coendou rothschildi
Thomas 1902
Coendou rothschildi
Thomas 1902
,
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 10: 169
.
Type Locality:
Panama
,
Chiriqui
, Sevilla Isl.
Vernacular Names:
Rothchild's Porcupine
.
Distribution:
Panama
.
Conservation:
IUCN
– Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion:
Possibly a subspecies of
bicolor
(
Goldman, 1920:135
;
Hall, 1981:854
).
Corbet and Hill (1991:200)
listed
rothschildi
as a subspecies of
bicolor
.
Emmons and Feer (1997:218)
stated that if
C. rothschildi
is a valid species, the
C
. "
bicolor
" west of the Andes are possibly
rothschildi
. Karyotype has 2n=74 and FN=84 (
George and Weir, 1974
).