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Taxon: Family Hystricidae Fischer de Waldheim, 1817 - Old World porcupines (mammal)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation (Fischer de Waldheim, 1817) Gray, 1821
Unavailable original name Fischer [von Waldheim], G. 1814. Zoognosia tabulis synopticis illustrata. Nicolai Sergeidis Vsevolozsky, Mosquae: VIII, 99.
Original name Fischer de Waldheim, 1817:372.
Subsequent rank 1821. Gray, 1821: 304.

Types

Nominotypical taxon ofHystricognathi (Infraorder) Tullberg, 1899
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]Hystricinae (Subfamily) Fischer de Waldheim, 1817

Synonyms

Synonymous nameHystricoidea (Superfamily) Fischer de Waldheim, 1817 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full namestekelvarkens

Vernacular Names (English)

Full nameOld World porcupines
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