Long-tailed Porcupine

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Long-tailed Porcupine
Fossil range: Middle Pleistocene - Recent
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Hystricidae
Genus: Trichys
Günther, 1877
Species: T. fasciculata
Binomial name
Trichys fasciculata
(Shaw, 1801)

The Long-tailed Porcupine (Trichys fasciculata) is a species of rodent in the Hystricidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Trichys. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

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