Tailed Porcupines

Tailed Porcupines
	Chain-tailed porcupine
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animals
Type of:	Chordate
Grade:	Mammals
Squad:	Rodents
Family:	American porcupines
Gender:	Tailed Porcupines
Latin name
	Coendou ; Lacépède , 1799

Chain-tailed porcupines ( lat. Coendou ) - a genus of mammals in the family of American porcupines .

Appearance and structure

The length of the head and body is 300–600 mm, the tail is 330–450 mm. Adults can weigh more than 4 kg. The tail is grasping. The hair is long, but the needles are not completely hidden.

Distribution

This genus is found from eastern Panama to Argentina , and east through Brazil to Guiana .

Views

The names are given in accordance with the dictionary of Boehme and Flint ^[1]

Bicolor porcupine ( Coendou bicolor )
Kupman Porcupine ( Coendou koopmani ) ^[2]
Chain-Tailed Porcupine ( Coendou prehensilis )
Porcupine Rothschild ( Coendou rothschildi )

Notes

↑ Sokolov V.E. The pagan dictionary of animal names. Mammals Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V. E. Sokolova. - M .: Rus. lang., 1984. - S. 195—196. - 10,000 copies.
↑ Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia. "Mammals" Prince. 2 = The New Encyclopedia of Mammals / Ed. D. MacDonald . - M .: Omega, 2007 .-- S. 454. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-465-01346-8 .

Literature

John Frederick Eisenberg, Kent Hubbard Redford - Mammals of the Neotropics: The central neotropics: Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, 1999, pp. 449,450

[1] Sokolov V.E. The pagan dictionary of animal names. Mammals Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V. E. Sokolova. - M .: Rus. lang., 1984. - S. 195—196. - 10,000 copies.

[а-2] Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia. "Mammals" Prince. 2 = The New Encyclopedia of Mammals / Ed. D. MacDonald . - M .: Omega, 2007 .-- S. 454. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-465-01346-8 .