Hystrix cristata Linnaeus, 1758

Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 771-806 : 773

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Hystrix cristata Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:56 View Cited Treatment .

TYPE LOCALITY: "Asia", restricted to near Rome, Italy by Thomas (1911a:141) .

DISTRIBUTION: Morocco to Egypt; Senegal to Ethiopia and N Tanzania; Sicily, Italy, Albania, and N Greece (European populations possibly introduced). Sympatric with H. africaeaustralis in central Africa.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix III ( Ghana).

SYNONYMS: aerulal?), cuvieri , daubentoni, europaea, goleata, occidanea, senegalica.

COMMENTS: In subgenus Hystrix . Includes goleata; see Corbet (1978c:159) and Corbet and Jones (1965). Allen (1939:441) commented on the status of cuvieri in N Africa.