Napo spiny rat
{{Short description|Species of mammals belonging to the spiny rat family of rodents}}
{{Speciesbox | name = Napo spiny rat
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| display_parents = 3
| genus = Proechimys
| species = quadruplicatus
| authority = Hershkovitz, 1948
| range_map = Proechimys quadruplicatus distribution (colored).png
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The Napo spiny rat (Proechimys quadruplicatus) is a spiny rat species{{MSW3 Hystricognathi | id = 13400502 | page = | heading = Species Proechimys quadruplicatus}} found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.
Phylogeny
Morphological characters and mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences showed that P. quadruplicatus belongs to the so-called goeldii group of Proechimys species, and shares closer phylogenetic affinities with the other members of this clade: P. steerei and P. goeldii.{{Cite journal | last=Patton | first=James L. | author-link=James L. Patton | date=1987 | title=Species groups of spiny rats, genus Proechimys (Rodentia: Echimyidae) | pages=305–345 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/9267 | journal=Fieldiana: Zoology, Studies in Neotropical Mammalogy: Essays in Honor of Philip Hershkovitz | language=English | volume=39 | issn=0015-0754}}{{Cite journal | last=Da Silva | first=Maria Nazareth F. | author-link=Maria Nazareth F. da Silva | date=1998 | title=Four New species of spiny rats of the genus Proechimys (Rodentia : Echimyidae) from the Western Amazon of Brazil | url=http://biostor.org/reference/81093 | journal=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington | language=en | volume=111 | pages=436–471 | issn=0006-324X}}{{Cite journal | last1=Patton | first1=James L. | author-link=James L. Patton | last2=Da Silva | first2=Maria Nazareth F. | author-link2=Maria Nazareth F. da Silva | last3=Malcolm | first3=Jay R. | date=2000-01-25 | title=Mammals of the Rio Juruá and the evolutionary and ecological diversification of Amazonia | journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History | volume=244 | pages=1–306 | doi=10.1206/0003-0090(2000)244<0001:MOTRJA>2.0.CO;2 | issn=0003-0090| doi-access=free }}{{Cite book | last1=Patton | first1=James L. | author-link=James L. Patton | last2=Leite | first2=Rafael N. | chapter=Genus Proechimys J. A. Allen, 1899 | pages=950–989 | title=Mammals of South America, Volume 2: Rodents | editor-last=Patton | editor-first=James L. | editor-last2=Pardiñas | editor-first2=Ulyses F. J. | editor-last3=D’Elía | editor-first3=Guillermo | date=2015-03-09 | publisher=University of Chicago Press | isbn=9780226169606 | language=en | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mbjnBgAAQBAJ}}
{{cladogram
|title=Species-level cladogram of the genus Proechimys.
|caption=The cladogram has been reconstructed from morphological characters and mitochondrial DNA (cytochrome b) sequences.
|align=center
|clades={{Cladogram of Proechimys species}}
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Category:Mammals described in 1948
Category:Taxa named by Philip Hershkovitz
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