Brush-tailed porcupine
The brush-tailed porcupines are a genus, Atherurus, of Old World porcupines found in Asia and Africa.
| Brush-tailed porcupines Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent | |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Species | |
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