Spiny Rat

Spiny rat may refer to:

• Echimyidae, a family of South and Central American rats known as "spiny rats"
• Echiothrix, a rat genus from Sulawesi
• Maxomys, a genus of Southeast Asian rats
• Large New Guinea spiny rat (Rattus praetor), a rat species from New Guinea and nearby islands

• Small spiny rat or Stein's rat (Rattus steini), a rat species from New Guinea

• Mindanao spiny rat (Tarsomys echinatus) from Mindanao
• Tokudaia, a rat genus from the Ryukyu Islands