Bicolored-spined porcupine

Bicolor-spined Porcupine
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Erethizontidae
Genus:	Coendou
Species:	C. bicolor
Binomial name
Coendou bicolor (Tschudi, 1844)
Subspecies
C. b. bicolor Tschudi, 1844 C. b. quichua Thomas, 1899 C. b. richardsoni Allen, 1913 C. b. simonsi Thomas, 1902

The Bicolor-spined Porcupine (Coendou bicolor) is a species of rodent in the Erethizontidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Coendou bicolor. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
• 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.