Family Hystricidae Fischer de Waldheim 1817 (porcupine)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae

Alternative spelling: Histricidae

Parent taxon: Hystricognathi according to P. Coster et al. 2010

See also Bonaparte 1850, Carroll 1988, Cope 1889, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gadow 1898, Gray 1821, Gray 1825, Hay 1902, Huchon and Douzery 2001, Jaekel 1911, Nowak 1991, Nowak 1999 and Wilson and Reeder 2005

Sister taxa: Bathyergomorpha, Bugtimys, Caviomorpha, Diatomyidae, Gaudeamuridae, Hodsahibia, Phiomorpha, Protophiomyinae, Tufamyidae

Subtaxa: Atherurus Hystrix Sivacanthion Spygurus Trichys Xenohystrix

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-frugivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of China (16 collections), the Congo-Kinshasa (4), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Djibouti (1), Egypt (3), Ethiopia (2), France (4), Georgia (1), Germany (1), Greece (2), Hungary (1), India (1), Indonesia (3), Israel (5), Italy (4), Kenya (11), Libya (1), Morocco (8), the Philippines (2), Romania (1), South Africa (38), Spain (8), Sudan (8), Swaziland (2), Taiwan (1), Tanzania (6), Vietnam (1), Zambia (4)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1), Greece (1), Italy (1), Kenya (1), South Africa (4), Turkey (1)

• Pliocene of Ethiopia (7), France (1), Georgia (1), Greece (3), Hungary (3), India (1), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (6), Malawi (1), Morocco (1), Poland (1), Romania (2), South Africa (4), Spain (3), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (11)

• MN 13 of China (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), South Africa (1)

• Miocene of Afghanistan (1), Algeria (2), Austria (1), Bulgaria (1), Chad (1), China (5), Greece (8), India (1), Italy (2), Kenya (5), Moldova (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Turkey (2)

Total: 234 collections including 265 occurrences

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