Atlantic Bamboo Rat

Taxobox | name = Atlantic Bamboo Rat
fossil_range = Pleistocene to Recent
status = LC
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Echimyidae
subfamilia = Dactylomyinae
genus = "Kannabateomys"
genus_authority = Jentink, 1891
species = "K. amblyonyx"
binomial = "Kannabateomys amblyonyx"
binomial_authority = Wagner, 1845
subdivision_ranks = Subspecies
subdivision ="K. a. amblyonyx" Wagner, 1845
"K. a. pallidior" Thomas, 1903

The Atlantic Bamboo Rat ("Kannabateomys amblyonyx"), or Southern Bamboo Rat, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. It is the only member of the genus "Kannabateomys".

References

* [http://www.natureserve.org/infonatura/ Infonatura]
*Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. Pp 1538-1600 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.