Name - Hystrix (Hystrix) refossa Gervais 1852

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1089378 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Hystrix etrusca Bosco 1898

• Hystrix makapensis Greenwood 1958

• Hystrix angressi Frenkel 1970

• Hystrix major Gervais 1859

• Hystrix (Hystrix) crassidens Lydekker 1886

• Hystrix (Hystrix) magna Pei 1987

• Hystrix (Hystrix) gigantea Van Weers 1985

• Hystrix (Hystrix) refossa

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Recent Publications

• The porcupine Hystrix refossa Gervais, 1852 from the Plio-Pleistocene of Europe, with notes on other fossil and extant species of the genus Hystrix.
• Turolian and Ruscinian porcupines (genus Hystrix, Rodentia) from Europe, Asia and North Africa.
• A taxonomic revision of the Pleistocene Hystrix (Hystricidae, Rodentia) from Eurasia with notes on the evolution of the family.

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