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Hystrix (porcupine)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae

Taxonomy

Hystrix was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was assigned to Glires by Linnaeus (1758); to Aculeata by Illiger (1811); to Histricidae by Gray (1825); and to Hystricidae by McKenna and Bell (1997), Sen (2001), Wilson and Reeder (2005) and Halaçlar et al. (2023).

Species

H. (Acanthion), H. (Hystricops), H. (Hystrix), H. (Thecurus), H. africaeaustralis, H. angressi, H. arayanensis, H. cristata, H. depereti, H. kayae, H. primigenia

Species lacking formal opinion data

H. afrucaseaustralis, H. major, H. makapanensis, H. makapanensis, H. refossa, H. subcristata, H. suevica

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Hystrix Linnaeus p. 56
1811	Hystrix Illiger p. 90
1825	Histrix Gray p. 341
1997	Hystrix McKenna and Bell
2001	Hystrix Sen
2005	Hystrix Wilson and Reeder
2023	Hystrix Halaçlar et al. p. 3

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha

Rank	Name	Author
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Theriamorpha	(Rowe 1993)
—	Theriiformes	()
—	Trechnotheria
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
—	Gliriformes	Wyss and Meng 1996
—	Glires	()
—	Simplicidentata	()
order	Rodentia	Bowdich 1821
—	Ctenohystrica	Huchon et al. 2000
infraorder	Hystricognathi	(Tullberg 1899)
family	Hystricidae	Fischer de Waldheim 1817
genus	Hystrix

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Hystrix Linnaeus 1758 [porcupine]

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Subg. Hystrix (Acanthion) Cuvier 1823

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Hystrix (Acanthion) brachyura Linnaeus 1758 [Malayan porcupine]

Hystrix (Acanthion) brachyura bengalensis Blyth 1851

Hystrix (Acanthion) brachyura hodgsoni Gray 1847

Hystrix (Acanthion) brachyura subcristata Swinhoe 1870

Hystrix (Acanthion) brachyura yunnanensis Anderson 1878

Hystrix (Acanthion) brachyura brachyura Linnaeus 1758

Hystrix (Acanthion) javanica Cuvier 1823 [Sunda porcupine]

Subg. †Hystrix (Hystricops) Leidy 1858