Coendou Lacépède 1799 (prehensile-tailed porcupine)
Osteichthyes - Glires - Erethizontidae
PaleoDB taxon number: 42136
Synonyms: Echinoprocta Gray 1865 (no. 395156), Sphiggurus Cuvier 1825 (no. 234851)
Parent taxon: Erethizontidae according to J. X. Samuels and B. Van Valkenburgh 2008
Sister taxa: Branisamyopsis, Cholamys, Eopululo, Erethizon, Erethizontinae, Hyposteiromys, Hypsosteiromys, Microsteiromys, Neosteiromys, Palaeosteiromys, Paradoxomys, Parasteiromys, Protosteiromys
Subtaxa: Coendou laenatus, Coendou prehensilis
Ecology: arboreal insectivore