Spiny rats pictures and facts
Even-toed ungulates
Carnivores
Cetacea
Bats
Dasyuroids
Opossums
Sirenia
Primates
Fish
Reptiles
Amphibians
Birds
Plants
Spiny rats
Animals
/ Mammals /
Rodentia
(1987) /
Hystricognathi
(228) /
Echimyidae
(78)
Echimyidae
contains 20 genera
Chaetomys
(1 animal)
Dactylomys
(3 animals)
Kannabateomys
(1 animal)
Olallamys
(2 animals)
Diplomys
(3 animals)
Echimys
(14 animals)
Isothrix
(2 animals)
Makalata
(1 animal)
Carterodon
(1 animal)
Clyomys
(2 animals)
Euryzygomatomys
(1 animal)
Hoplomys
(1 animal)
Lonchothrix
(1 animal)
Mesomys
(5 animals)
Proechimys
(32 animals)
Thrichomys
(1 animal)
Boromys
(2 animals)
Brotomys
(2 animals)
Heteropsomys
(2 animals)
Puertoricomys
(1 animal)
Hystricognathi contains 18 families
Bathyergidae (12 animals)
Hystricidae (11 animals)
Petromuridae (1 animal)
Thryonomyidae (2 animals)
Erethizontidae (12 animals)
Chinchillidae (6 animals)
Dinomyidae (1 animal)
Caviidae (14 animals)
Hydrochaeridae (1 animal)
Dasyproctidae (13 animals)
Agoutidae (2 animals)
Ctenomyidae (38 animals)
Octodontidae (9 animals)
Abrocomidae (2 animals)
Echimyidae (78 animals)
Capromyidae (20 animals)
Heptaxodontidae (5 animals)
Myocastoridae (1 animal)
Order Rodentia
contains 2 suborders
Sciurognathi
(1759 animals)
Hystricognathi
(228 animals)
Spiny rats
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Hystricognathi
Family : Echimyidae
Facts about the family Echimyidae, the spiny rats
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