The prehensile-tailed porcupines or coendous (genus Coendou) are a group of arboreal porcupine found in Central and South America.

Other small to medium sized mammals present include the agouti, the paca, the prehensile-tailed porcupine, the Nine-banded Armadillo and a few species of opossum.

A bat house is adjacent to the king vulture enclosure, and contains Indian flying fox, straw-colored fruit bat, two-toed sloth and prehensile-tailed porcupine.

Small Mammal House: Golden lion tamarins, black and rufous giant elephant-shrews, three-banded armadillos, prehensile-tailed porcupines, naked mole rats, treeshrews, and collared peccaries.

Animals contained in the Rainforest include: Egyptian fruit bats, giant anteaters, capybaras, scarlet ibis, prehensile-tailed porcupines, two-toed sloths, green and black poison arrow frogs, a reticulated python, green vine snakes, Batagur turtles, Brazilian ocelots, Bornean orangutans, the extremely rare fishing cat, and gharial.

These three genera are often united into a single genus Coendou.

A population in western Ecuador belongs either to this species or to Coendou bicolor.

Among the most notable features of Coendou porcupines is their unspined prehensile tail.

The tree porcupines (Coendou, Sphiggurus, and Echinoprocta) contain 16 species.

The 15 species of tree porcupine divided between 3 genera (Coendou, Sphiggurus, and Echinoprocta).

The prehensile-tailed porcupines or coendous (genus Coendou) are a group of arboreal porcupine found in Central and South America.

A Review of the Coendou vestitus Group with Descriptions of Two New Species from Amazonia.

Black Dwarf (Koopman's) Porcupine, Coendou nycthemera (koopmani)

New World porcupines of the genera Coendou and Chaetomys have fully prehensile tails that help them to climb and prevent them from falling from trees.

They are closely related to the other Neotropical tree porcupines (genus Echinoprocta and genus Sphiggurus) and these three are sometimes treated as subgenera of Coendou instead of distinct genera.

A porcupine is any of 29 species of rodent belonging to the families Erethizontidae (genera: Coendou, Sphiggurus, Erethizon, Echinoprocta, and Chaetomys) or Hystricidae (genera: Atherurus, Hystrix, and Trichys).