Bristle-spined rat: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the bristle-spined rat lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Chaetomys subspinosus
Group	Mice, rats & other rodents
Status	Vulnerable (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	South America
Class	Mammal
Order	Rodentia
Family	Erethizontidae

Where does the bristle-spined rat live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the bristle-spined rat in 1 country or territory across South America. Wikidata gives its range as: Brazil.

Brazil

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the bristle-spined rat endangered?

The bristle-spined rat’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Vulnerable” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the bristle-spined rat?

The bristle-spined rat (Chaetomys subspinosus) is a mammal in the order Rodentia and the family Erethizontidae, genus Chaetomys. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the bristle-spined rat

The bristle-spined rat (Chaetomys subspinosus) is an arboreal rodent from the Atlantic forest in eastern Brazil. Also known as the bristle-spined porcupine or thin-spined porcupine, it is the only member of the genus Chaetomys and the subfamily Chaetomyinae. It was officially described in 1818, but rarely sighted since, until December 1986, when two specimens—one a pregnant female—were found in the vicinity of Valencia in Bahia. Since then it has been recorded at several localities in eastern Brazil, from Sergipe to Espírito Santo (there are no recent records from Rio de Janeiro), but it remains rare and threatened due to habitat loss, poaching and roadkills.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Bristle-spined rat (revision 1373800998), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q894229 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).