Spiny rat explained

Spiny rat may refer to:

• Echimyidae, the Neotropical spiny rats, a family of South and Central American caviomorph rodents

or any of the following genera or species of tropical or subtropical east Asian or Australasian rats of subfamily Murinae:

• Echiothrix, a rat genus from Sulawesi
• Maxomys, a genus of Southeast Asian rats
• Large New Guinea spiny rat (Rattus praetor), a rat species from New Guinea and nearby islands
• Small spiny rat or Stein's rat (Rattus steini), a rat species from New Guinea
• Mindanao spiny rat (Tarsomys echinatus) from Mindanao
• Tokudaia, a rat genus from the Ryukyu Islands