Erethizon dorsatum (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 : 776

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scientific name	Erethizon dorsatum (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Erethizon dorsatum (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:57.

TYPE LOCALITY: E Canada (= Quebec Prov.) .

DISTRIBUTION: C Alaska ( USA) to S Hudson Bay and Labrador ( Canada), south to E Tennessee, C Iowa, and C Texas ( USA), N Coahuila, Chihuahua, and Sonora ( Mexico), and S California ( USA).

STATUS: Common.

SYNONYMS: bruneri, couesi, doani, epixanthus, myops, nigrescens, picinum.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Miller and Kellogg (1955:631), who restricted the type locality; also see Anderson and Rand (1943). Includes couesi; (see review by Woods, 1973, Mammalian Species, 29). There are six subspecies.