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Reig, A., Barros, M.A., Useche, M. et al. The chromosomes of spiny rats, proechimys trinitatis, from Trinidad and Eastern Venezuela (Rodentia, Echimyidae). Genetica 51, 153–158 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00133516
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