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Hystrix indica Kerr, 1792. 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.

Published as part of Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, pp. 771-806 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 774, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083