The Colombian spiny-rat (''Proechimys canicollis'') is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae. It is found in

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

and Venezuela.

Phylogeny

Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that ''P. canicollis'' represents one independent evolutionary lineage within the genus ''Proechimys'', without clear phylogenetic affinity for any of the 6 major groups of species.

References

Proechimys Mammals of Colombia Mammals described in 1899 Taxa named by Joel Asaph Allen Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Echimyidae-stub