- The prehensile-tailed
porcupines or
coendous (genus
Coendou) are
found in
Central and
South America. Two
other formerly recognized Neotropical tree porcupine...
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where any
remnant of the
original forest is left. The tree
porcupines (
Coendou)
contain 17 species. They are
found throughout tropical South America,...
- porcupine,
Coendou prehensilis Bicolored-spined porcupine,
Coendou bicolor Andean porcupine,
Coendou quichua Black dwarf (Koopman's) porcupine,
Coendou nycthemera...
- The
Brazilian porcupine (
Coendou prehensilis) is a
porcupine found in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana,
French Guiana, Peru, Paraguay...
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Coendou vossi is
small porcupine of the
Coendou genus endemic to Colombia.
Specimens of
Coendou vossi can be
found from the
humid and dry
forests of the...
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Genus Coendou Coendou baturitensis -
Baturite porcupine Coendou bicolor - Bicolored-spined
porcupine Coendou ichillus -
Streaked dwarf porcupine Coendou insidiosus...
- some
paleontologists arguing that it
represents a
member of the
genus Coendou (the prehensile-tailed porcupines) instead. The
earliest uncontroversial...
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Coendou speratus,
known locally as
coandumirim and
commonly as the
dwarf porcupine, is
small porcupine of the
Coendou genus found in
northeastern Brazil...
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porcupine (
Coendou melanurus)
Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine (
Coendou mexic****)
Black dwarf porcupine (
Coendou nycthemera)
Brazilian porcupine (
Coendou prehensilis)...
- reedbeds, ****s and salt-marshes. New
World porcupines of the
genera Coendou and
Chaetomys have
fully prehensile tails that help them to
climb and prevent...