Proechimys poliopus Osgood 1914

Proechimys poliopus Osgood 1914, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 10: 135.

Type Locality: Venezuela, Táchira State, San Juan de Colón (797 m) on N slope of Sierra de Merida. Listed in Honacki et al. (1982:590) as Venezuela, Zulia Prov., Río Aurare, El Panorama, for unknown reason.

Vernacular Names: Gray-footed Spiny-rat.

Distribution: NW Venezuela, between Lake Maracaibo and the Sierra de Perija and adjacent Colombia.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Placed in trinitatus group (Patton, 1987). Formerly included in guyannensis; see Reig et al. (1980). Karyotype has 2n=42 and FN=72-76 (Aguilera and Corti, 1994; Reig and Useche, 1976).