Hystrix indica Kerr, 1792

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 : 774

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Hystrix indica Kerr, 1792 View in CoL . In Linnaeus, Anim. Kingdom, p. 213.

TYPE LOCALITY: India .

DISTRIBUTION: Transcaucasus; Asia Minor; Israel; Arabia to S Kazakhstan and India; Sri Lanka; Tibet ( China).

STATUS: Locally common.

SYNONYMS: aharonii, blanfordi, cuneiceps, hirsutirostris, leucurus, malabarica, mersinae, mesopotamica, narynensis, satunini, schmidtzi, zeylonensis.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Hystrix . Citation based on Smellie's translation of Buffon (1781:206). Gromov and Baranova (1981:102) employed the name leucura for this species without reference to Kerr, 1792.