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Coendou (prehensile-tailed porcupine)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Erethizontidae

Taxonomy
Coendou was named by Lacépède (1799). It is extant.

It was assigned to Erethizontidae by Kurten and Anderson (1980) and McKenna and Bell (1997).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1799Coendou Lacépède
1825Sphiggurus Cuvier
1865Echinoprocta Gray
1980Coendou Kurten and Anderson p. 272
1997Coendou McKenna and Bell
2008Sphiggurus Samuels and Van Valkenburgh p. 1409

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—EuarchontogliresMurphy et al. 2001
—GliriformesWyss and Meng 1996
—Glires()
—Simplicidentata()
orderRodentiaBowdich 1821
—CtenohystricaHuchon et al. 2000
infraorderHystricognathi(Tullberg 1899)
—Caviomorpha(Wood and Patterson 1955)
superfamilyErethizontoideaBonaparte 1845
familyErethizontidaeBonaparte 1845
genusCoendouLacépède 1799

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Coendou Lacépède 1799 [prehensile-tailed porcupine]
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Coendou laenatus Thomas 1903
†Coendou magnus Lund 1839
Coendou prehensilis Linnaeus 1758
Invalid names: Echinoprocta Gray 1865 [synonym], Sphiggurus Cuvier 1825 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: arborealg
Diet: herbivoref
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2011-05-12 18:13:27
Modified: 2011-05-12 03:13:27
Source: g = genus, f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Dunn and Rasmussen 2007

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Pliocene to the top of the Holocene or 3.60000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 2.588 Ma

Collections (15 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588Argentina (Jujuy) Erethizon sp. (141896)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Bolivia (Tarija ) Coendou sp., Coendou magnus (70673)
Pleistocene (glacial)2.588 - 0.0117Brazil (Minas Gerais) Coendou prehensilis, Coendou magnus (140474)
Lujanian0.781 - 0.012Uruguay Coendou magnus (71274 71325)
Lujanian0.781 - 0.012Argentina (Sante Fé) Coendou magnus (189512)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Bolivia (Tarija) Coendou sp. (142158)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Brazil (Piauí) Coendou magnus (211632)
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene0.129 - 0.0Brazil (Bahia) Coendou prehensilis (71313) Coendou sp. (212472)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Brazil (Districto Agropecura) Coendou prehensilis (21687)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Panama Coendou rothschildi (21691)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Venezuela (Guarico) Coendou prehensilis (21686)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Peru Coendou prehensilis (21689)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Brazil (Pará) Coendou prehensilis (211490)