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Scolomys melanops : ウィキペディア英語版 | Scolomys melanops
''Scolomys melanops'', also known as the short-nosed scolomys, South American spiny mouse,〔 Ecuadorian spiny mouse, or gray spiny mouse, is a species of rodent in the genus ''Scolomys'' of family Cricetidae. It is a forest mouse and was thought to be endemic to Ecuador but it is now known to have a wider distribution, being also present in part of Peru. ==Description== The South American spiny mouse has a total length of between including a tail of . It has a short, broad head, a small body and a nearly naked tail. The dorsal pelage is short and dense and consists of a mixture of slender hairs with reddish or blackish tips and stouter spines of the same length that are darker at the tip, giving a grizzled appearance.〔 The fur on the ventral surface has similar hairs and spines but they are a uniform grey colour. Morphologically this species is very similar to the closely related Ucayali spiny mouse (''Scolomys ucayalensis''). The differences are mostly in the skull characteristics and the dentition. The karyotype of ''S. melanops'' has 2n = 60 and FN = 78, while that of ''S. ucayalensis'' has 2n = 50, FN = 68.
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