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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER HYSTRICOMORPHA
--> INFRAORDER HYSTRICOGNATHI
--> FAMILY Hystricidae
--> GENUS Hystrix
--> SUBGENUS Hystrix
SPECIES Hystrix (Hystrix) cristata
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 56. | | Common Name: | Crested Porcupine | | Type Locality: | "Asia", restricted to near Rome, Italy by Thomas (1911a:141). | | Distribution: | Morocco to Egypt; Senegal to Ethiopia and N Tanzania; Sicily, Italy, Albania, and N Greece (European population possibly introduced). Sympatric with H. africaeaustralis in C Africa. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix III (Ghana); IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | | Comments: | Subgenus Hystrix. Includes galeata; see Corbet (1978c:159) and Corbet and Jones (1965). Allen (1939:441) commented on the status of cuvieri in N Africa. Karyotype has 2n=60-66 and FN=112-116 (George, 1980; George and Weir, 1974). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
aerula Thomas, 1925
ambigua Lonnberg, 1908
conradsi Muller, 1910
cuvieri Gray, 1847
daubentoni Cuvier, 1822
europaea Kerr, 1792
galeata Thomas, 1893
lademanni Muller, 1910
lonnbergi Muller, 1910
occidanea Cabrera, 1924
senegalica Cuvier, 1822
somalensis Lonnberg, 1912
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