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GENUS Erethizon

Author:F. Cuvier, 1823.
Citation:Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 9: 432.
Type Species:Hystrix dorsata Linnaeus, 1758.
Comments:Erithizon Burnett, 1830, is a later spelling (Corbet and Hill, 1980:189).
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SPECIES dorsata

SUBSPECIES dorsata

SUBSPECIES bruneri

SUBSPECIES couesi

SUBSPECIES epixanthus

SUBSPECIES myops

SUBSPECIES nigrescens

SUBSPECIES picinum

Synonyms:

    Erethison Cuvier, 1829
    Eretison McMurtrie, 1831
    Eretizon Cuvier, 1825
    Erithizon Burnett, 1830
    Erythizon Alston, 1876

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