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
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-frugivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (21 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), Malaysia (2), 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), India (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: 242 collections including 278 occurrences