Sumatran porcupine

Sumatran porcupine
Sumatran porcupine killed by a truck in central Sumatra
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Hystricidae
Genus:	Hystrix
Species:	H. sumatrae
Binomial name
Hystrix sumatrae (Lyon, 1907)

The Sumatran porcupine (Hystrix sumatrae) is a species of rodent in the family Hystricidae. It is endemic to the Indonesian island of Sumatra, where it is hunted for food. ^[1]

References

1. Amori, G.; Aplin, K. (2016). "Hystrix sumatrae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T10754A22231673. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T10754A22231673.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.

Further reading

• Woods, C. A.; Kilpatrick, C. W. (2005), "Hystricognathi", in Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.), Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1538–1600, ISBN   0-8018-8221-4