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Erethizontidae

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
FAMILY
Published in
Cat. Meth. Mamm. Europe p.5

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Mammalia
order
Rodentia
family
Erethizontidae

Name

Synonyms
Erithizontidae
Homonyms
Erethizontidae
Common names
American Porcupines in English
Arboreal Porcupines in English
Baumstachler in German
Boomstekelvarkens in Dutch
NEW WORLD PORCUPINES in English
Neuweltstachelschweine in German
New World Porcupines in English
New World Porcupines in language.
New World Porcupines in English
New World porcupine in English
New World porcupines in English
New World porcupines in English
New World porcupines in English
New World porcupines in English
Porcos-espinhos do Novo Mundo in Portuguese
Porcospini in Italian
Porcs-épics du Nouveau Monde in French
Porcupine in English
Puercoespines del nuevo mundo in Spanish
Puupliikkisiat in Finnish
Stekelvarkens van de Nieuwe Wereld in Dutch
Trepiggsvinfamilien in Norwegian Bokmål
Yenidünyaporkupinigiller in Turkish
amerikanpiikiköt in Finnish
kúszósülfélék in Hungarian
porcupine in English
trädpiggsvin in Swedish
ursonowate in Polish
urzonovití in Czech
Éréthizontidés in French
Ερεθιζοντίδες in Greek, Modern (1453-)
Американские дикобразы in Russian
Древесные дикобразы in Russian
เม่นโลกใหม่ in Thai
アメリカヤマアラシ科 in Japanese
美洲豪豬科 in Chinese

Bibliographic References

  1. Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79.
  2. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  3. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  4. D'Elía, Guillermo, Pierre-Henri Fabre, and Enrique P. Lessa, 2019: Rodent systematics in an age of discovery: recent advances and prospects. Journal of Mammalogy, vol. 100, no. 3. 852-871.
  5. McKenna, Malcolm C., and Susan K. Bell, 1997: null. Classification of mammals above the species level. 631.
  6. Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
  7. Ruggiero, M. A. (2014). Families of All Living Organisms, Version 2.0.a.15, (4/26/14). Expert Solutions International, LLC, Reston, VA. 420 pp.
  8. Ruggiero, M. A. (2014). Families of All Living Organisms, Version 2.0.a.15, (4/26/14). Expert Solutions International, LLC, Reston, VA. 420 pp.
  9. Voss, Robert S., Caldonia Hubbard, Sharon A. Jansa, 2013: Phylogenetic Relationships of New World Porcupines (Rodentia, Erethizontidae): Implications for Taxonomy, Morphological Evolution, and Biogeography. American Museum Novitates, no. 3769. 1-36.
  10. Wilson, Don E., T. E. Lacher Jr., and R. A. Mittermeier, eds., 2016: null. Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 6: Lagomorphs and Rodents I. 987.
  11. Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207.
  12. Woods, Charles A., and C. William Kilpatrick / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: Infraorder Hystricognathi Brandt, 1855. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2. 1538-1600.
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