Hystrix Linnaeus, 1758

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Rank
GENUS: Published in
Linnæus, Carolus. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. Vol. Tomus I, Editio decima, reformata: i-ii, 1-824.

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Classification

kingdom
Animalia: phylum
Chordata: class
Mammalia: order
Rodentia: family
Hystricidae: genus
Hystrix

Name

Synonyms: Acantherium Gray, 1847; Acanthia Gray, 1825; Acanthion Cuvier, 1823; Acanthium Agassiz, 1846; Acanthochoerus Gray, 1866; Echinothrix Brookes, 1828; Histrix Cuvier, 1798; Histrix Linnaeus, 1758; Hystria Forster, 1771; Oedocephalus Gray, 1866; Thecurus Lyon, 1907
Homonyms: Hystrix Linnaeus, 1758; Hystrix Moench; Hystrix Alstrup & Olech; Hystrix Redi, 1868; Hystrix (L.) Millsp.; Hystrix J.B.M.Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1822
Common names: Crested Porcupines in language.; porcupine in English

Bibliographic References

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 75 Twenty-seven generic names of Protozoa, Vermes, Pisces, Reptilia and Mammalia included in the Official List of Zoological Names.Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 73(1), 35-37 (1922)
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. 10th edition.
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006).
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006).
SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997
SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB
Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207.
Woods, Charles A., and C. William Kilpatrick / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: Infraorder Hystricognathi Brandt, 1855. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2. 1538-1600.
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