Long-tailed Armored Tree-rat

Long-tailed Armored Tree-rat
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Echimyidae
Genus:	Makalata
Species:	M. macrura (Wagner, 1842)
Binomial name
Makalata macrura
Synonyms
Echimys macrurus Wagner, 1842

The Long-tailed Armored Tree-rat, Makalata macrura, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil, with a population in Ecuador which is referable either to this species or to Makalata didelphoides.

References

1. ^ Patton, J., Catzeflis, F., Weksler, M. & Percequillo, A. (2008). Makalata macrura. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 January 2009.

• 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.