The dark-caped Atlantic spiny rat or Mirapitanga spiny rat (''Trinomys mirapitanga''), is a
spiny rat species
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from
South America
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. It is found in
Brazil
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.
Also known as the Pau Brazil Spiny Rat, it is known only from specimens found at two locations on the southern
Bahia
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coast, the
Pau-Brasil Ecological Station and the Fazenda São João.
References
Trinomys
Mammals described in 2002
Taxa named by James L. Patton
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