Sunda porcupine

Sunda porcupine
Sunda porcupine at Ragunan Zoo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Rodentia
Family:Hystricidae
Genus:Hystrix
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

  1. Lunde, D. & Aplin, K. (2008). "Hystrix javanica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 5 January 2009.
  • 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


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