Skip to content
Echimys

Specimen image via iDigBio

EntityQ911368· pop 23· linked from 143 articles

Also known as Spiny Tree-rat

genre de mammifères

In the Vinony graph

Within Vinony's link graph, Echimys is referenced by 143 other articles, and connects out to Hutia, Giant Tree Rat and Santamartamys rufodorsalis.

Vinony files it under Echimyini, Echimys and Rodent genera.

Its subject is documented across 23 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassMammalia
  4. OrderRodentia
  5. FamilyEchimyidae
Observations recorded342

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
63
With media
2
Family
Echimyidae
Collections
AMNH
Recorded in
Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Echimyinae
Image
Echimys chrysurus.tif
Show 5 more facts
taxon name
Echimys
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Echimys
Commons category
Echimys
time period
Holocene
Sources (1)

via Wikidata · CC0

Article · Français

Echimys est un genre de rongeurs de la famille des Echimyidae qui comprend des espèces de rats épineux d'Amérique latine. Ce genre a été décrit pour la première fois en 1809 par l'anatomiste français Georges Cuvier (1769-1832). Synonymes : * Echinomys Wagner, 1840 * Loncheres Illiger, 1811 * Nelomys Jourdan, 1837

Abstract from DBpedia / Wikipedia · CC BY-SA

Connections

Categories