Fig. 1.—A in Trinomys yonenagae (Rodentia: Echimyidae)

Fig. 1.—A captive young female Trinomys yonenagae. This animal is a descendant from an original stock of animals collected in Ibiraba (Bahia, Brazil) in 1996 and kept in an animal husbandry facility at Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo. At the left, a close-up view of the torch-tail, from which its popular name of torch-tail spiny rat (rato de espinho rabo-de-facho, in Portuguese) comes from, Photography by Daniela Luchesi Milan used with permission.