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Hystrix indica Kerr 1792
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Description
Hystrix indica Kerr, 1792. In Linnaeus, Anim. Kingdom, p. 213.
TYPE LOCALITY: India.
DISTRIBUTION: Transcaucasus; Asia Minor; Israel; Arabia to S Kazakhstan and India; Sri Lanka; Tibet (China).
STATUS: Locally common.
SYNONYMS: aharonii, blanfordi, cuneiceps, hirsutirostris, leucurus, malabarica, mersinae, mesopotamica, narynensis, satunini, schmidtzi, zeylonensis.
COMMENTS: Subgenus Hystrix. Citation based on Smellie's translation of Buffon (1781:206). Gromov and Baranova (1981:102) employed the name leucura for this species without reference to Kerr, 1792.
Notes
Published as part of Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, pp. 771-806 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 774, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/1D26FFF6FFD8FFD7FFE1FC69FFB0DF05 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Kerr
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Hystricidae
- Genus
- Hystrix
- Species
- indica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hystrix indica Kerr, 1792 sec. Woods, 1993
References
- Buffon, G. - L. L., Comte de. 1781. Natural history, general and particular, by the Count de Buffon, illustrated with above six hundred copper plates, the history of man and quadrupeds, translated into English with notes and observations by William Smellie. First ed. vol. 7 (Natural history of animals). T. Cadell and W. Davies, London, 452 pp.
- Gromov, I. M., and G. I. Baranova (eds.). 1981. Katalog mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Catalog of mammals of the USSR]. Nauka, Leningrad, 456 pp. (in Russian).
- Kerr, R. 1792. The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; class I: Mammalia. London, J. Murray & R. Faulder, 664 pp.