Coendou roosmalenorum Voss and da Silva 2001

Coendou roosmalenorum Voss and da Silva, 2001 Coendou roosmalenorum Voss and da Silva, 2001: 24; type locality “ Novo Jerusalem near the left bank of the middle Rio Madeira in the Brazilian state of Amazonas.” Sphiggurus roosmalenorum: Woods and Kilpatrick, 2005: 1549 (name combination). DISTRIBUTION: Coendou roosmalenorum occurs on both banks of the Rio Madeira in the Brazilian states of Amazonas and Rondônia. Although specimens have only been collected at three localities (Voss and da Silva, 2001), photographs of a small porcupine closely resembling this species were taken in 1992 on the south bank of the Amazon near Alvarães (13°13′ S, 64°48′W), about 500 km NW of the type locality (Franz Kern, personal commun., 2011).
Published as part of Voss, Robert S., 2011, Revisionary Notes on Neotropical Porcupines (Rodentia: Erethizontidae) 3. An Annotated Checklist of the Species of Coendou Lacépède, 1799, pp. 1 in American Museum Novitates 2011 (3720) on page 1, DOI: 10.1206/3720.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5359512