Tome's spiny rat

Tome's spiny-rat
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Echimyidae
Subfamily:	Echimyinae
Tribe:	Myocastorini
Genus:	Proechimys
Species:	P. semispinosus
Binomial name
	Proechimys semispinosus; (Tomes, 1860)
Subspecies
	P. s. burrus Bangs, 1901; P. s. calidior Thomas, 1911; P. s. centralis (Thomas, 1896); P. s. colombianus Thomas, 1914; P. s. goldmani Bole, 1937; P. s. ignotus Kellogg, 1946; P. s. panamensis Thomas, 1900; P. s. rosa Thomas, 1900; P. s. rubellus Hollister, 1914; P. s. semispinosus (Tomes, 1860)
Synonyms
	P. gorgonae Bangs, 1905

Tome's spiny rat (Proechimys semispinosus), also known as Tomes' spiny rat or the Central American spiny rat, is a species of spiny rat distributed from Honduras to Ecuador. The IUCN has assessed its conservation status as being of "least concern".

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