Coendou mexicanus (Kerr, 1792)

Hidalgo-Mihart, Mircea G., Contreras-Moreno, Fernando M., Jesús-de la Cruz, Alejandro, Juárez-López, Rugieri, Bravata de la Cruz, Yaribeth, Pérez-Solano, Luz A., Hernández-Lara, Carolina, Friedeberg, Diana, Thornton, Dan & Koller-González, Juan M., 2017, Inventory of medium-sized and large mammals in the wetlands of Laguna de Terminos and Pantanos de Centla, Mexico, Check List 13 (6), pp. 711-726 : 718

Coendou mexicanus (Kerr, 1792)

Material examined. Table 2; Figure 11.

Coendou mexicanus is the only erethizontid in southern Mexico (Hall 1981). The presence of spines on most of the body make this species unique in the region ( Reid 2009). We classify this species as Coendou mexicanus and not Sphiggurus mexicanus following Voss et al. (2013) and Ramirez-Pulido et al. (2014).