Hystrix Linnaeus 1758 (porcupine)

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, HalaƧlar 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

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Ecology: semifossorial 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 (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), 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: 217 collections including 232 occurrences

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