Hystrix cristata Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:56. TYPE LOCALITY: Italy, near Rome. DISTRIBUTION: Morocco to Egypt; Senegal to Ethiopia and N. Tanzania; Sicily, Italy, Albania, and N. Greece (European populations possibly introduced). COMMENT: Includes galeata; see Corbet, 1978:159, and Corbet and Jones, 1965, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1965:285-300. PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (Ghana). ISIS NUMBER: 5301410017002003001 as H. cristata. 5301410017002004001 as H. galeata.

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 570, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039

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