Published December 31, 1982
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Hystrix cristata Linnaeus 1758
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Description
Hystrix cristata Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:56.
TYPE LOCALITY: Italy, near Rome.
DISTRIBUTION: Morocco to Egypt; Senegal to Ethiopia and N. Tanzania; Sicily, Italy, Albania, and N. Greece (European populations possibly introduced).
COMMENT: Includes galeata; see Corbet, 1978:159, and Corbet and Jones, 1965, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1965:285-300.
PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (Ghana).
ISIS NUMBER: 5301410017002003001 as H. cristata.
5301410017002004001 as H. galeata.
Notes
Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 570, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
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- Cites
- Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.3919007 (DOI)
- Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/9D22FE00F8FB88B8A2A6740EC7CEBD35 (URL)
- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF85FFD1463DFFA12306FFF55074FFFA (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Hystricidae
- Genus
- Hystrix
- Species
- cristata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hystrix cristata Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982
References
- Corbet, G. B., and L. A. Jones. 1965. The specific characters of the crested porcupines, subgenus Hystrix. Proceedings of Zoological Society of London, 144: 285 - 300.