{{Short description|Species of mammals belonging to the spiny rat family of rodents}} {{Speciesbox | name = ''Proechimys simonsi'' | image = | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Patton, J. |author2=Percequillo, A. |date=2016 |title=''Proechimys simonsi'' |volume=2016 |article-number=e.T18299A22208022 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T18299A22208022.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref> | display_parents = 3 | genus = Proechimys | species = simonsi | authority = Thomas, 1900 | range_map = Proechimys simonsi distribution (colored).png | synonyms = '''''P. hendeei''''' <small>Thomas, 1926</small> }}
'''Simons's spiny rat''' ('''''Proechimys simonsi''''') is a spiny rat species<ref>{{MSW3 Hystricognathi | id = 13400515 | page = | heading = Species ''Proechimys simonsi''}}</ref> found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. It was named for American scientific collector Perry O. Simons.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1080/00222930008678378|title=XXXVII.—Descriptions of new Rodents from Western South America|journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History|volume=6|issue=33|pages=294–302|year=1900|last1=Thomas|first1=Oldfield|url=https://zenodo.org/record/2188735}}</ref>
==Phylogeny== Morphological characters and mitochondrial (cytochrome b) DNA sequences showed that ''P. simonsi'' represents one independent evolutionary lineage within the genus ''Proechimys'', without clear phylogenetic affinity for any of the six major groups of species.<ref name="Patton1987">{{Cite journal | last=Patton | first=James L. | author-link=James L. Patton | date=1987 | title=Species groups of spiny rats, genus ''Proechimys'' (Rodentia: Echimyidae) | pages=305–345 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/9267 | journal=Fieldiana: Zoology, Studies in Neotropical Mammalogy: Essays in Honor of Philip Hershkovitz | language=English | volume=39 | issn=0015-0754}}</ref><ref name="daSilva1998">{{Cite journal | last=Da Silva | first=Maria Nazareth F. | author-link=Maria Nazareth F. da Silva | date=1998 | title=Four New species of spiny rats of the genus ''Proechimys'' (Rodentia: Echimyidae) from the Western Amazon of Brazil | url=http://biostor.org/reference/81093 | journal=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington | language=en | volume=111 | pages=436–471 | issn=0006-324X}}</ref>{{sfn|Patton|Da Silva|Malcolm|2000|p=205}}<ref name="Patton2015">{{Cite book | last1=Patton | first1=James L. | author-link=James L. Patton | last2=Leite | first2=Rafael N. | chapter=Genus ''Proechimys'' J. A. Allen, 1899 | pages=950–989 | title=Mammals of South America, Volume 2: Rodents | editor-last=Patton | editor-first=James L. | editor-last2=Pardiñas | editor-first2=Ulyses F. J. | editor-last3=D'Elía | editor-first3=Guillermo | date=2015-03-09 | publisher=University of Chicago Press | isbn=978-0-226-16960-6 | language=en | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mbjnBgAAQBAJ}}</ref>
{{cladogram |title=Species-level cladogram of the genus ''Proechimys''. |caption=The cladogram has been reconstructed from morphological characters and mitochondrial DNA sequences.<ref name="Patton1987"/><ref name="daSilva1998"/><ref name="Patton2000p205">{{Cite journal | last1=Patton | first1=James L. | author-link=James L. Patton | last2=Da Silva | first2=Maria Nazareth F. | author-link2=Maria Nazareth F. da Silva | last3=Malcolm | first3=Jay R. | date=2000-01-01 | title=Mammals of the Rio Juruá and the evolutionary and ecological diversification of Amazonia | journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History | volume=244 | pages=1–306 | doi=10.1206/0003-0090(2000)244<0001:MOTRJA>2.0.CO;2 | issn=0003-0090| doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Patton2015"/> |align=center |clades={{Cladogram of Proechimys species}} }}
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