Sunda porcupine

Sunda porcupine

Sunda porcupine at Ragunan Zoo
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Hystricidae
Genus:	Hystrix
Subgenus:	Acanthion
Species:	H. javanica
Binomial name
*Hystrix javanica* (F. Cuvier, 1823)

The Sunda porcupine (Hystrix javanica) is a species of rodent in the family Hystricidae. It is endemic to Indonesia.

References

Woods, C. A.; Kilpatrick, C. W. (2005), "Hystricognathi", in Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., 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

Extant species of family Hystricidae (Old World porcupines)

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Suborder: Hystricomorpha Infraorder: Hystricognathi

Hystrix	Subgenus Acanthion: Malayan porcupine (Hystrix brachyura) Sunda porcupine (Hystrix javanica) Subgenus Hystrix: Cape porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis) crested porcupine (Hystrix cristata) Indian crested porcupine (Hystrix indica) Subgenus Thecurus: Thick-spined porcupine (Hystrix crassispinis) Philippine porcupine (Hystrix pumila) Sumatran porcupine (Hystrix sumatrae)

Atherurus	African brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus) Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus macrourus)

Trichys	Long-tailed porcupine (Trichys fasciculata)

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