Long-tailed Porcupine
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| Long-tailed Porcupine Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene - Recent |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Hystricidae |
| Genus: | Trichys Günther, 1877 |
| Species: | T. fasciculata |
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| Trichys fasciculata (Shaw, 1801) |
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The Long-tailed Porcupine (Trichys fasciculata) is a species of rodent in the Hystricidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Trichys.[citation needed] It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
[edit] References
- ^ Aplin, K. & Lunde, D. (2008). Trichys fasciculata. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2009.
- Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. Pp 1538-1600 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press of the, Washington D.C.
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