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Designation of a neotype for the Brazilian porcupine, Coendou prehensilis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Zenodo, 2011.
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Abstract
- The Brazilian porcupine was one of several species described and illustrated by the 17 th -century naturalist Georg Marcgrave, whose text was among the primary references upon which Linnaeus based his Hystrix prehensilis. As currently understood, Coendou prehensilis is a wide-ranging polytypic taxon that has never been revised and may represent a complex of closely related species. Given that no name-bearing type specimen of C. prehensilis is believed to be extant, and in order to avoid ambiguous application of this name, we designate a specimen collected at the type locality in Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil, as the neotype for Hystrix prehensilis Linnaeus. The geographic distribution of mitochondrial DNA haplotypes suggests that specimens from west-central Brazil previously identified as “Coendou prehensilis” belong to a different species, but only a comprehensive taxonomic revision of the genus will shed light on species limits and the geographic ranges of C. prehensilis and other congeneric forms.
- Subjects :
- biology
Ecology
Zoology
Rodentia
Biodiversity
Hystrix
biology.organism_classification
Geographic distribution
Taxon
Coendou prehensilis
biology.animal
Mammalia
Animalia
Animal Science and Zoology
Type specimen
Type locality
Taxonomy (biology)
Chordata
Porcupine
Erethizontidae
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Taxonomy
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a2d4b96c05710e988e6212a0756b037c
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.201871