Long-tailed Porcupine

Long-tailed Porcupine Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene - Recent
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Hystricidae
Genus:	Trichys Günther, 1877
Species:	T. fasciculata
Binomial name
*Trichys fasciculata* (Shaw, 1801)

The Long-tailed Porcupine (Trichys fasciculata) is a species of rodent in the Hystricidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Trichys. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

References

^ Aplin, K. & Lunde, D. (2008). Trichys fasciculata. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2009.

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 of the, Washington D.C.

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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