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
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