Simons's spiny rat explained

Simons's spiny rat (Proechimys simonsi) is a spiny rat species found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. It was named for American scientific collector Perry O. Simons.^[1]

Phylogeny

Morphological characters and mitochondrial (cytochrome b) DNA sequences showed that P. simonsi represents one independent evolutionary lineage within the genus Proechimys, without clear phylogenetic affinity for any of the six major groups of species.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Notes and References

1. 10.1080/00222930008678378. XXXVII.—Descriptions of new Rodents from Western South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 6. 33. 294–302. 1900. Thomas. Oldfield.
2. Patton . James L. . James L. Patton . 1987 . Species groups of spiny rats, genus Proechimys (Rodentia: Echimyidae) . 305–345 . Fieldiana: Zoology, Studies in Neotropical Mammalogy: Essays in Honor of Philip Hershkovitz . English . 39 . 0015-0754.
3. Da Silva . Maria Nazareth F. . Maria Nazareth F. da Silva . 1998 . Four New species of spiny rats of the genus Proechimys (Rodentia : Echimyidae) from the Western Amazon of Brazil . Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . en . 111 . 436–471 . 0006-324X.
4. Book: Patton . James L. . James L. Patton . Leite . Rafael N. . Genus Proechimys J. A. Allen, 1899 . 950–989 . Mammals of South America, Volume 2: Rodents . Patton . James L. . Pardiñas . Ulyses F. J. . D’Elía . Guillermo . 2015-03-09 . University of Chicago Press . 9780226169606 . en .