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Brush-tailed Porcupines
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Brush-tailed Porcupines

Atherurus

The brush-tailed porcupines are a genus, Atherurus, of Old World porcupines found in Asia or Africa.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

African Brush-tailed Porcupine

speciesAtherurus africanus

Asian Brush-tailed Porcupine

speciesAtherurus macrourus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 44179.