Long-tailed Porcupine

Long-tailed Porcupine

Coendou longicaudatus

Insufficient data
overall probability at Sierra de la Macarena National Park
1 Verified records at Sierra de la Macarena National Park
☀️🌙 Day & Night When it's active Active throughout day and night

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 albinism and is susceptible to several fungal infections. Wikipedia →

📅 Monthly Probability

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Fewer than 5 records of Long-tailed Porcupine at Sierra de la Macarena National Park — not enough to chart months honestly.

☀️🌙 When They're Spotted

Active throughout day and night · across all parks (global)

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Global Distribution

Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.

where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is)  ·  parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Probability
1 Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas 🇧🇷 Brazil
10–20%
2 Tayrona National Natural Park 🇨🇴 Colombia
10–20%
3 Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve 🇪🇨 Ecuador
5–10%
4 Noel Kempff Mercado National Park 🇧🇴 Bolivia
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5 Emas National Park 🇧🇷 Brazil
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6 Brownsberg Nature Park 🇸🇷 Suriname
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7 Sierra de la Macarena National Park 🇨🇴 Colombia
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8 Madidi National Park 🇧🇴 Bolivia
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9 Chingaza National Natural Park 🇨🇴 Colombia
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10 Yasuní National Park 🇪🇨 Ecuador
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11 Tambopata National Reserve 🇵🇪 Peru
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12 Manu National Park 🇵🇪 Peru
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