Hystrix (mammal)
Genus of rodents
Hystrix Temporal range: Early Miocene - Recent | |
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Hystrix indica (Henry Vilas Zoo, Madison, Wisconsin) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Hystricidae |
Genus: | Hystrix Linnaeus, 1758 |
Type species | |
Hystrix cristata Linnaeus, 1758 | |
Species | |
Hystrix africaeaustralis | |
Distribution of Old World porcupines |
Hystrix is a genus of porcupines containing most of the Old World porcupines. Fossils belonging to the genus date back to the late Miocene of Africa.[1]
Hystrix (from Ancient Greek ὕστριξ (hústrix, “porcupine”) was given name by the 18th-century Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus.
Species
- Genus Hystrix
- Subgenus Hystrix
- Hystrix africaeaustralis - Cape porcupine
- Hystrix cristata - crested porcupine
- Hystrix indica - Indian crested porcupine
- Subgenus Acanthion
- Hystrix brachyura - Malayan porcupine or Himalayan crestless porcupine
- Hystrix javanica - Sunda porcupine
- Subgenus Thecurus
- Hystrix crassispinis - thick-spined porcupine
- Hystrix pumila - Philippine porcupine
- Hystrix sumatrae - Sumatran porcupine
- Subgenus Hystrix
Fossil species
- †Hystrix arayanensis - Late Miocene
- †Hystrix depereti - Pliocene
- †Hystrix paukensis - Late Miocene-Pliocene
- †Hystrix primigenia - Late Miocene-Pliocene
- †Hystrix refossa - Pleistocene
- †Hystrix suevica - Late Miocene
References
- ^ Barthelmess, E.L. (2006). "Hystix africaeaustralis". Mammalian Species (788): 1–7. doi:10.1644/788.1.
- 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.; Kilpatrick, C. W. (2005), "Hystricognathi", in Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.), Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1538–1600, ISBN 0-8018-8221-4
- Data related to Hystrix at Wikispecies
- Media related to Hystrix at Wikimedia Commons
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Extant species of family Hystricidae (Old World porcupines)
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Rodentia
- Suborder: Hystricomorpha
- Infraorder: Hystricognathi
- African brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus)
- Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus macrourus)
- Subgenus Acanthion: Malayan porcupine (Hystrix brachyura)
- Sunda porcupine (Hystrix javanica)
- Subgenus Hystrix: Cape porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis)
- crested porcupine (Hystrix cristata)
- Indian crested porcupine (Hystrix indica)
- Subgenus Thecurus: Thick-spined porcupine (Hystrix crassispinis)
- Philippine porcupine (Hystrix pumila)
- Sumatran porcupine (Hystrix sumatrae)
- Long-tailed porcupine (Trichys fasciculata)
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