Species of mammals belonging to the spiny rat family of rodents
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The Napo spiny rat (Proechimys quadruplicatus) is a spiny rat species found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.
Phylogeny.
Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that "P. quadruplicatus" belongs to the so-called "goeldii" group of "Proechimys" species, and shares closer phylogenetic affinities with the other members of this clade: "P. steerei" and "P. goeldii".
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