Cape porcupine

This article is about an African porcupine. For the headland in Canada, see Cape Porcupine, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Cape porcupine
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Hystricidae
Genus: Hystrix
Species:
H. africaeaustralis
Binomial name
Hystrix africaeaustralis
Peters, 1852
  range

The Cape porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis), Cape crested porcupine or South African porcupine, is a species of Old World porcupine native to central and southern Africa.

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