Coendou bicolor (Tschudi, 1844)

Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 771-806 : 775

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scientific name	Coendou bicolor (Tschudi, 1844)
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Coendou bicolor (Tschudi, 1844) View in CoL . Fauna Peruana, p. 186.

TYPE LOCALITY: Peru, Junfn Dept., between Tulumayo and Chanchamayo Rivers .

DISTRIBUTION: Bolivia, Peru, Andean and W Ecuador, N Colombia, perhaps SW Colombia. Lives up to 2,500 m elevation.

SYNONYMS: quichua, richardsoni, sanctamartae, simonsi .

COMMENTS: May include rothschildi ( Hall, 1981:854) ; Corbet and Hill (1991:200) listed rothschildi as a subspecies of bicolor (see comment under rothschildi ). Emmons and Feer (1990: 198) considered C. quichua Thomas, 1899, of the Andes of Ecuador to be a distinct species based on its smaller size and shorter tail.