A small porcupine recorded in Brazil. Brown dorsal fur covers its quills, and a 2023 paper groups its known records in the Madeira biogeographical province of southwestern Amazonia.
Brown dorsal fur covers the quills, and the tail is about as long as the body.
The paper describes Coendou porcupines as arboreal, herbivorous, and nocturnal; this is a genus-level account.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.