Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Alternative spelling: Histrix
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Parent taxon: Hystricidae according to S. Sen 2001
See also Gray 1825, Halaçlar et al. 2023, Illiger 1811, Linnaeus 1758, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Wilson and Reeder 2005
Sister taxa: Atherurus, Sivacanthion, Spygurus, Trichys, Xenohystrix
Subtaxa: Hystrix (Acanthion) Hystrix (Hystricops) Hystrix (Hystrix) Hystrix (Thecurus) Hystrix africaeaustralis Hystrix angressi Hystrix arayanensis Hystrix cristata Hystrix depereti Hystrix kayae Hystrix primigenia
Ecology: semifossorial 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 (2), Israel (5), Italy (4), Kenya (10), Libya (1), Morocco (8), the Philippines (2), Romania (1), South Africa (37), Spain (8), Sudan (8), Swaziland (2), Taiwan (1), Tanzania (5), 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 (4), France (1), Georgia (1), Greece (3), Hungary (3), India (1), Italy (2), Kenya (5), Malawi (1), Morocco (1), Poland (1), Romania (2), South Africa (2), Spain (3), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (8)
• MN 13 of China (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1)
• Miocene of Afghanistan (1), Algeria (2), Austria (1), Bulgaria (1), Chad (1), China (5), Greece (8), Italy (2), Kenya (4), Moldova (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Turkey (2)
Total: 223 collections including 239 occurrences
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