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Prehensile-tailed porcupine

Rodents
The prehensile-tailed porcupines or coendous are found in Central and South America. Two other formerly recognized Neotropical tree porcupine genera, Echinoprocta and Sphiggurus, have been subsumed into Coendou, since Sphiggurus was shown by... Wikipedia
Scientific name: Coendou
Domain: Eukaryota
Family: Erethizontidae
Genus: Coendou; Lacépède, 1799
Order: Rodentia