spiny rat

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spiny rat (plural spiny rats)

  1. Any of certain caviomorph rodents of the family Echimyidae, especially of genus Proechimys, that resemble rats and have stiff, pointed hairs, or spines.
    • 1999, Egbert Giles Leigh Jr., Tropical Forest Ecology : A View from Barro Colorado Island, page 28:
      Spiny rats, Proechimys semispinosus, are rodents weighing up to 500 g which eat fruits and seeds that have fallen to the forest floor. In Lutz catchment, a spiny rat's territory is three-fifths as wide as an agouti's (Smythe et al. 1982).
    • 2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Mammalogy, page 232:
      Members of the important Neotropical family Echimyidae, which includes a viety of roughly rat-sized rodents, are called spiny rats. […] Spiny rats are widely distributed in the Neotropics, occurring from Nicaragua southward through the northern half of South America to Paraguay and south-eastern Brazil.
  2. Any murine rodent of the genus Maxomys (sometimes considered a subgenus of Rattus).
  3. Any murine rodent of the genus Tokudaia.
  4. Any murine rodent of the genus Echiothrix.

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