Hystrix (mammal)
| Hystrix Temporal range: Early Miocene - Recent | |
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| Hystrix indica (Henry Vilas Zoo, Madison, Wisconsin) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Hystricidae |
| Genus: | Hystrix Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Type species | |
| Hystrix cristata Linnaeus, 1758 | |
| Species | |
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Hystrix africaeaustralis | |
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| 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.[1]
Hystrix (from Ancient Greek ὕστριξ (hústrix, “porcupine”) was given name by the 18th-century Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus.
Species
[edit]- 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
- Subgenus Hystrix
Fossil species
[edit]- †Hystrix arayanensis - Late Miocene
- †Hystrix depereti - Pliocene
- †Hystrix kayae - Late Miocene[2]
- †Hystrix leucurus - Pleistocene
- †Hystrix makapanensis - Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene
- †Hystrix paukensis - Late Miocene-Pliocene
- †Hystrix primigenia - Late Miocene-Pliocene
- †Hystrix refossa - Pleistocene
- †Hystrix suevica - Late Miocene
- †Hystrix velunensis - Pliocene[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Barthelmess, E.L. (2006). "Hystix africaeaustralis". Mammalian Species (788): 1–7. doi:10.1644/788.1.
- ↑ Halaçlar, K.; Sevim Erol, A.; Köroğlu, T.; Rummy, P.; Deng, T.; Mayda, S. (2023). "A new Late Miocene Hystrix (Hystricidae, Rodentia) from Turkey". Integrative Zoology. 19 (3): 548–563. doi:10.1111/1749-4877.12754. PMID 37532680. S2CID 260432917.
- ↑ Czernielewski, M. (2022). "A new species of Hystrix (Rodentia: Hystricidae) from the Pliocene site of Węże 1 in southern Poland". Acta Geologica Polonica. 73 (1): 73–83. doi:10.24425/agp.2022.142649. S2CID 260019772. Archived from the original on 2023-03-04. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
- 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
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