Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat

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Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Tribe: Echimyini
Genus: Phyllomys
Species:
P. nigrispinus
Binomial name
Phyllomys nigrispinus
(Wagner, 1842)

The black-spined Atlantic tree-rat, (Phyllomys nigrispinus), is a South American

moist broadleaf forest and semideciduous forest in the Atlantic Forest region.[1] It is arboreal and is believed to build nests of leaves in trees.[1] Its karyotype has 2n=52.[2]

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