The Ecuadoran spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys teleus) is a rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to central western Ecuador, where it lives from sea level up to about 2000 metres on the coastal plain and the western slopes of the Andes. The species is nocturnal. It inhabits dry tropical evergreen forest at the southernmost extension of the Choco region, and it is often found near streams. It makes well-defined runways through its habitat. The remaining forest it depends on is shrinking and breaking into fragments, and the species is described as threatened by this deforestation and fragmentation.
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It is endemic to central western Ecuador
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The species is nocturnal
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lives in dry tropical evergreen forests
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is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae
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is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae
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