Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Echimyidae > Proechimys > Proechimys trinitatis

Proechimys trinitatis (Trinidad spiny-rat)

Synonyms: Echimys trinitatis (homotypic); Proechimys trinitatus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Trinidad spiny rat (Proechimys trinitatus) is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae. It is endemic to Trinidad and Tobago.
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Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Lesser Antillean dry forests Grenada, St. Lucia Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Trinidad and Tobago moist forests Trinidad and Tobago Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Victoria-Mayaro Forest Reserve 132764 Trinidad and Tobago  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Caribbean Islands Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. No

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Polygenis bohlsi bohlsi[1]
Polygenis klagesi klagesi[1]
Polygenis klagesi samuelis[1]
Pterophthirus splendida[2]
Rhopalopsyllus australis tamoyus[1]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1International Flea Database
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0