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Cape Porcupine
Hystrix africaeaustralis W. C. H. Peters, 1852

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Rodentia - rodents »  family Hystricidae - old world porcupines »  genus Hystrix - porcupines »  subgenus Hystrix

Scientific synonyms

Hystrix (Hystrix) africaeaustralis Peters, 1852
Hystrix africae australis

Other names

= Cape Crested Porcupine
= South African Porcupine
= Southern African Porcupine

Images

Hystrix africaeaustralis - Cape Porcupine

Author: McMammal

Hystrix africaeaustralis - Cape Porcupine

chřestící aparát z dutých bodlin na ocase dikobraza

Author: McMammal

Hystrix africaeaustralis - Cape Porcupine

Author: McMammal

Hystrix africaeaustralis - Cape Porcupine

Author: McMammal

Hystrix africaeaustralis - Cape Porcupine

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Hystrix africaeaustralis - Cape Porcupine

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Intertaxon relationships

predator: Panthera pardus pardus (Linnaeus, 1758) - African Leopard

Included taxa

Number of records: 2

subspecies Hystrix africaeaustralis zuluensis Roberts, 1936

Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [10748]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Hystrix africaeaustralis Peters, 1852]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 1.13 [1001283]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Hystrix africaeaustralis W. C. H. Peters, 1852]
Data retrieved on: 8 November 2024
EN Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Hystrix africaeaustralis Peter, 1852]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Hystrix africaeaustralis Peters, 1852]

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