Sumatran porcupine
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Sumatran porcupine killed by a truck in central Sumatra | |
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Species: | H. sumatrae
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Hystrix sumatrae (Lyon, 1907)
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The Sumatran porcupine (Hystrix sumatrae) is a species of rodent in the family Hystricidae. It is endemic to the Indonesian island of Sumatra, where it is hunted for food.[1]
References
Further reading
- Woods, C. A. (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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