Frosted hairy dwarf porcupine

The frosted hairy dwarf porcupine, "Coendou pruinosus", is a porcupine species in the family Erethizontidae from Colombia and northern and eastern Venezuela. It was formerly sometimes assigned to "Sphiggurus", a genus no longer recognized since genetic studies showed it to be polyphyletic. The species lives in lowland tropical rainforest and cloud forest at elevations from . Its karyotype has 2n = 42 and FN = 76. Its closest relative is the brown hairy dwarf porcupine ("Coendou vestitus").