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title: "Long-tailed Porcupine"
description: "Coendou longicaudatus — Zoogdieren. The Amazonian long-tailed porcupine (Coendou longicaudatus), also known as Cerrado's long-tailed porcupine, is a species of rodent in the family Erethizontidae, the New World porcupines."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/long-tailed-porcupine
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Long-tailed Porcupine

> Coendou longicaudatus — Zoogdieren. The Amazonian long-tailed porcupine (Coendou longicaudatus), also known as Cerrado's long-tailed porcupine, is a species of rodent in the family Erethizontidae, the New World porcupines.

- Scientific name: *Coendou longicaudatus*
- Category: `mammals` (Zoogdieren)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos), `jungle` (Jungle)
- iNaturalist observations: 754
- Wikidata: [Q125210835](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125210835)
- iNaturalist taxon: [1431648](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1431648)

## Names

- en: Long-tailed Porcupine
- de: Amazonas-Greifstachler
- es: Puercoespín enano de cola larga

## Countries with the most observations

BR (236), CO (151), GF (62), BO (57), EC (47), PE (41), TT (25), VE (22), SR (18), GY (6)

## Summary

The Amazonian long-tailed porcupine (Coendou longicaudatus), also known as Cerrado's long-tailed porcupine, is a species of rodent in the family Erethizontidae, the New World porcupines. Found across most of South America, it was first described by François Marie Daudin in 1802. It was for some time considered a subspecies of the Brazilian porcupine (Coendou prehensilis). C. prehensilis was split into three distinct species in 2021:

the Brazilian porcupine, C. prehensilis;
the Amazonian long-tailed porcupine, C. longicaudatus; and
the Baturite porcupine, C. baturitensis.
The species has been recorded as exhibiting…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazonian_long-tailed_porcupine

## Photo

![Long-tailed Porcupine](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/long-tailed-porcupine/medium.jpg)

Photo: Ferhat Gundogdu · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/255789727

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/long-tailed-porcupine?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).