The frosted hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou pruinosus) is a porcupine species in the family Erethizontidae[2] from Colombia and northern and eastern Venezuela.

It was formerly sometimes assigned to Sphiggurus,[2] a genus no longer recognized since genetic studies showed it to be polyphyletic.

[3] The species lives in lowland tropical rainforest and cloud forest at elevations from 50 to 2,600 meters (160 to 8,530 ft).

[2] Its closest relative is the brown hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou vestitus).

[3] This article about a rodent is a stub.