Simons's spiny rat
{{Short description|Species of mammals belonging to the spiny rat family of rodents}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Proechimys simonsi
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| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| display_parents = 3
| genus = Proechimys
| species = simonsi
| authority = Thomas, 1900
| range_map = Proechimys simonsi distribution (colored).png
| synonyms = P. hendeei Thomas, 1926
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Simons's spiny rat (Proechimys simonsi) is a spiny rat species{{MSW3 Hystricognathi | id = 13400515 | page = | heading = Species Proechimys simonsi}} found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. It was named for American scientific collector Perry O. Simons.{{cite journal|doi=10.1080/00222930008678378|title=XXXVII.—Descriptions of new Rodents from Western South America|journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History|volume=6|issue=33|pages=294–302|year=1900|last1=Thomas|first1=Oldfield|url=https://zenodo.org/record/2188735}}
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.{{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}}{{sfn|Patton|Da Silva|Malcolm|2000|p=205}}{{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 sequences.{{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=2000-01-01 | 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 }}
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|clades={{Cladogram of Proechimys species}}
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Category:Mammals described in 1900
Category:Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
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