Echimys

Echimys
Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent
Echimys chrysurus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Subfamily: Echimyinae
Tribe: Echimyini
Genus: Echimys
F. Cuvier, 1809
Type species
Myoxus chrysurus
Species

Echimys chrysurus
Echimys saturnus
Echimys vieirai

Echimys distribution
E. chrysurus in red, E. vieirai in blue, E. saturnus in green
Synonyms

Echinomys Wagner, 1840
Loncheres Illiger, 1811
Nelomys Jourdan, 1837

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 Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos), meaning "hedgehog", and μῦς (mûs), meaning "rat, mouse".

Classification

The genus contains three extant species

Members of the genera Callistomys, Makalata, Pattonomys, and Phyllomys were all formerly considered part of the genus Echimys.

Distribution

The members of genus Echimys are all found in northern South America, though both the dark spiny tree-rat (Echimys saturnus) and Vieira's spiny tree-rat (E. vieirai) have smaller extents of occurrence than does the white-faced spiny tree-rat (E. chrysurus). E. saturnus is found in the foothills and lowlands of Ecuador and northern Peru, while E. vieirai is only known from the Amazonas and Pará states of Brazil, south of the Amazon River.

Phylogeny

Echimys is the sister genus to Phyllomys, and then to Makalata. These taxa are closely related to the genera Pattonomys and Toromys. In turn, these five genera share phylogenetic affinities with a clade containing the bamboo rats Dactylomys, Olallamys, Kannabateomys together with Diplomys and Santamartamys.

Genus-level cladogram of the Echimyini.
Echimyini 
         

  Isothrix

  "Eumysopines"  
         
         
         
         

  Pattonomys

  Toromys
  (Giant tree-rat)

         

  Makalata

The cladogram has been reconstructed from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA characters.

References

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