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Hystrix Temporal range: Early Miocene - Recent
Hystrix indica (Henry Vilas Zoo, Madison, Wisconsin)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Hystricidae
Genus:	Hystrix Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Hystrix cristata Linnaeus, 1758
Species
Hystrix africaeaustralis Hystrix brachyura Hystrix crassispinis Hystrix cristata Hystrix indica Hystrix javanica Hystrix pumila Hystrix sumatrae
Distribution of Old World porcupines

Hystrix is a genus of porcupines containing most of the Old World porcupines. Fossils belonging to the genus date back to the late Miocene of Africa.

Hystrix (from Ancient Greek ὕστριξ (hústrix, “porcupine”) was given name by the 18th-century Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus.

Species

• Genus Hystrix
  • Subgenus Hystrix
    • Hystrix africaeaustralis - Cape porcupine
    • Hystrix cristata - African crested porcupine
    • Hystrix indica - Indian crested porcupine
  • Subgenus Acanthion
    • Hystrix brachyura - Malayan porcupine or Himalayan crestless porcupine
    • Hystrix javanica - Sunda porcupine
  • Subgenus Thecurus
    • Hystrix crassispinis - thick-spined porcupine
    • Hystrix pumila - Philippine porcupine
    • Hystrix sumatrae - Sumatran porcupine

Fossil species

• †Hystrix arayanensis - Late Miocene
• †Hystrix depereti - Pliocene
• †Hystrix paukensis - Late Miocene-Pliocene
• †Hystrix primigenia - Late Miocene-Pliocene
• †Hystrix refossa - Pleistocene
• †Hystrix suevica - Late Miocene

References

1. Barthelmess, E.L. (2006). "Hystix africaeaustralis". Mammalian Species (788): 1–7. doi:10.1644/788.1.

• Nowak, Ronald M. (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World, 6th edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1936 pp. ISBN 0-8018-5789-9
• Woods, C. A.; Kilpatrick, C. W. (2005), "Hystricognathi", in Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.), Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1538–1600, ISBN 0-8018-8221-4

• Data related to Hystrix at Wikispecies
• Media related to Hystrix at Wikimedia Commons

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