Cayenne spiny rat, Proechimys guyannensis (Red echimys or spiny rat of d'Azara). Illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Basire from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1825.

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