Asiatic Brush-tailed Porcupine

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Asiatic Brush-tailed Porcupine
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Hystricidae Genus: Atherurus Species: A. macrourus
Binomial name
Atherurus macrourus (Linnaeus, 1758)

The Asiatic Brush-tailed Porcupine (Atherurus macrourus) is a species of rodent in the Hystricidae family. It is found in China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.

[edit] References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Atherurus macrourus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
• Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. Pp 1538-1600 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.

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