Check List 16(6): 1627-1631, doi: 10.15560/16.6.1627
Filling distribution gaps: first record of the Western Amazonian Dwarf Porcupine, Coendou ichillus Voss & Da Silva, 2001 (Mammalia, Rodentia), in the Napo Moist Forests ecoregion of Colombia
expand article infoHéctor E. Ramírez-Chaves‡, Diego Caranton-Ayala§, Darwin M. Morales-Martínez|, Edilson Rosero#
‡ Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia§ Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas SINCHI; Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia| Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Fundación de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Conservación, Bogotá, Colombia¶ Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas SINCHI, Bogotá, Colombia# Alas Putumayo, Mocoa, Colombia

Corresponding author: Héctor E. Ramírez-Chaves ( hector.ramirez@ucaldas.edu.co )

Academic editor: Guilherme Garbino
© Héctor E. Ramírez-Chaves, Diego Caranton-Ayala, Darwin M. Morales-Martínez, Edilson Rosero.
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Citation: Ramírez-Chaves HE, Carantón-Ayala D, Morales-Martínez DM, Rosero E (2020) Filling distribution gaps: first record of the Western Amazonian Dwarf Porcupine, Coendou ichillus Voss & Da Silva, 2001 (Mammalia, Rodentia), in the Napo Moist Forests ecoregion of Colombia. Check List 16(6): 1627-1631. https://doi.org/10.15560/16.6.1627
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Abstract
The Western Amazonian Dwarf Porcupine, Coendou ichillus Voss & Da Silva, 2001, is poorly known in South America. The species is known only from eight localities in the Amazon and Orinoquia regions of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. In Colombia, it is known from one locality in the Orinoquía region, based on a specimen collected in 1956. We present a new distribution record which adds information about the presence of C. ichillus in the Napo Moist Forests ecoregion, in the Department of Putumayo, Amazon region of Colombia. We suggest that C. ichillus is more widely distributed in the Amazon region of the country. However, based on the number of known records to date, C. ichillus is the rarest species of porcupine.
Keywords
Amazonia, Erethizontidae, quills, photographs, Putumayo