Kingdom Animalia Family Echimyidae Phylum Chordata Order Rodent | Class Mammalia Subfamily Eumysopinae Rank Genus | |
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Similar Rodent, Echimyidae, Phyllomys, Thrichomys, Proechimys | ||
Trinomys is a genus of South American spiny rats in the family Echimyidae.
Extant species of Trinomys
Based on Natureserve.
The species of spiny rats in the genus Trinomys are apparently all Brazilian. In particular many of them are endemic to the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. Not much is known for certain about their ranges however, which still are being investigated, with frequent extensions to the recorded distributions of several species in various ecological classes of forest and dry land. They do not however appear to occur at high altitudes, and several of their ranges appear to be parapatric.
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