Stump-tailed Porcupine
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Erethizontidae
Subfamily:	Erethizontinae
Genus:	Echinoprocta Gray, 1865
Species:	E. rufescens
Binomial name
Echinoprocta rufescens Gray, 1865

The Stump-tailed Porcupine (Echinoprocta rufescens) is a species of rodent in the Erethizontidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Echinoprocta. It is endemic to Colombia.

[edit] References

• Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. Pp 1538-1600 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.

v • d • e Extant species of family Erethizontidae (New World porcupines) Kingdom: Animalia · Phylum: Chordata · Class: Mammalia · Order: Rodentia · Suborder: Hystricomorpha · Infraorder: Hystricognathi · Parvorder: Caviomorpha Erethizontinae Coendou (Prehensile-tailed porcupines) Bicolored-spined Porcupine (Coendou bicolor) · Black Dwarf Porcupine (Coendou nycthemera) · Brazilian Porcupine (Coendou prehensilis) · Andean Porcupine (Coendou quichua) · Rothschild's Porcupine (Coendou rothschildi)  · Santa Marta Porcupine (Coendou sanctamartae) Echinoprocta Stump-tailed Porcupine (Echinoprocta rufescens) Erethizon North American Porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) Sphiggurus (Dwarf porcupines) Streaked Dwarf Porcupine (Sphiggurus ichillus) · Bahia Porcupine (Sphiggurus insidiosus) · Black-tailed Hairy Dwarf Porcupine (Sphiggurus melanursus) · Mexican Hairy Dwarf Porcupine (Sphiggurus mexicanus) · Frosted Hairy Dwarf Porcupine (Sphiggurus pruinosus) · Roosmalen's Dwarf Porcupine (Sphiggurus roosmalenorum) · Paraguaian Hairy Dwarf Porcupine (Sphiggurus spinosus) · Brown Hairy Dwarf Porcupine (Sphiggurus vestitus)  · Orange-spined Hairy Dwarf Porcupine (Sphiggurus villosus) Chaetomyinae Chaetomys Bristle-spined Rat (Chaetomys subspinosus) Category

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