Hystrix

Hystrix

Taxobox
name = "Hystrix"
fossil_range = Early Miocene - Recent


image_caption = Hystrix drinking water (Henry Vilas Zoo, Madison, Wisconsin)
image_width = 299px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Hystricidae
genus = "Hystrix"
genus_authority = Linnaeus, 1758
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Hystrix africaeaustralis"
"Hystrix brachyura"
"Hystrix crassispinis"
"Hystrix cristata"
"Hystrix indica"
"Hystrix javanica"
"Hystrix pumila"
"Hystrix sumatrae":"Hystrix is also a synonym for the plant genus Elymus L.""Hystrix" is a genus of porcupine that contains what are the best known and most distinctive of the Old World porcupines.

pecies

*Genus "Hystrix"
**Subgenus "Thecurus"
***"Hystrix crassispinis" - Thick-spined Porcupine
***"Hystrix pumila" - Philippine Porcupine
***"Hystrix sumatrae" - Sumatran Porcupine
**Subgenus "Acanthion"
***"Hystrix brachyura" - Malayan Porcupine
***"Hystrix javanica" - Sunda Porcupine
**Subgenus "Hystrix"
***"Hystrix africaeaustralis" - Cape Porcupine
***"Hystrix cristata" - Crested Porcupine
***"Hystrix indica" - Indian Porcupine

References

*Nowak, Ronald M. 1999. "Walker's Mammals of the World", 6th edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1936 pp. ISBN 0-8018-5789-9
*Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. Pp 1538-1600 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.


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