Ihering's Atlantic spiny rat
species of mammal
Ihering's Atlantic spiny-rat or Ihering's spiny rat (Trinomys iheringi) is a spiny rat species from Brazil.
Taxonomy
It was first described by Oldfield Thomas in 1911, who placed it in Proechimys. It was named in honor of Hermann von Ihering, who collected the type specimen.
In 1948, João Moojen described six subspecies (bonafidei, denigratus, gratiosus, iheringi, panema, and paratus), though he was unhappy with his population sample and expected some of them may have been properly full species based on geographic isolation and physical differences. A seventh (eliasi) was described in 1992 by Reis et al. In 2000, Proechimys iheringi was moved to Trinomys by Lara and Patton, who also reclassified the former subspecies based on genetic analysis. Trinomys eliasi and T. paratus became separate species, as did T. gratiosus with bonafidei as a subspecies. dengiratus became a subspecies of T. setosus. The study was unable to examine any specimens of panema. As of 2025, the species has no named subspecies.
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