Family Hystricidae G. Fischer, 1817. Mém. Soc. Imp. Nat., Moscow, 5:372.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Mohr (1965) and by Van Weers (1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1983). Usually divided into two subfamilies (Atherurinae, Hystricinae), but Van Weers did not agree.