Echimys is a genus of the spiny rats family, the Echimyidae. Members of this genus are collectively called spiny tree-rats.
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Echimys is a genus of the spiny rats family, the Echimyidae. Members of this genus are collectively called spiny tree-rats.
The genus name Echimys, and also its synonym Echinomys, derive from the two Ancient Greek words (), meaning "hedgehog", and (), meaning "mouse, rat".
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).