Gardner's spiny rat


Gardner's spiny-rat, Proechimys gardneri, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Bolivia and Brazil.

Phylogeny

Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P. gardneri belongs to the so-called gardneri group of Proechimys species. Within this clade, Proechimys gardneri is more closely related to P. pattoni than to P. kulinae.