Brush-tailed porcupine
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The brush-tailed porcupines are a genus, Atherurus, of Old World porcupines[1] found in Asia and Africa.
Quick Facts Brush-tailed porcupines Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent, Scientific classification ...
Brush-tailed porcupines Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent | |
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African brush-tailed porcupine in the National Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Hystricidae |
Genus: | Atherurus F. Cuvier, 1829 |
Type species | |
Hystrix macroura | |
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