Sumatran porcupine
Species of rodent
| Sumatran porcupine | |
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| Sumatran porcupine killed by a truck in central Sumatra | |
Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Hystricidae |
| Genus: | Hystrix |
| Species: | H. sumatrae |
| Binomial name | |
| Hystrix sumatrae (Lyon, 1907) | |
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The Sumatran porcupine (Hystrix sumatrae) is a species of rodent in the family Hystricidae. It is endemic to the Indonesian island of Sumatra, where it is hunted for food.[1]
References
- ^ a b Amori, G.; Aplin, K. (2016). "Hystrix sumatrae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T10754A22231673. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T10754A22231673.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
Further reading
- 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
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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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