Name - Hystrix Linnaeus 1758

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:20690 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Hystrix

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Recent Publications

• The porcupine Hystrix (Acanthion) brachyura punungensis subsp. nov. from Late Pleistocene fissure deposits near Punung, Java.
• A porcupine (Rodentia, Mammalia) from Lufengpithecus Site, Lufeng, Yunnan.
• A taxonomic revision of the Pleistocene Hystrix (Hystricidae, Rodentia) from Eurasia with notes on the evolution of the family.
• Hystrix africaeaustralis.
• Rodents of sub-Saharan Africa: a biogeographic and taxonomic synthesis.

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Sherborn Index Animalium

• Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1758 1758: 56. [Index Animalium Entry]

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