Long-tailed porcupine
| Long-tailed porcupine Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene – Recent
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| Keningau, Malaysia | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Hystricidae |
| Genus: | Trichys Günther, 1877 |
| Species: | T. fasciculata
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| Binomial name | |
| Trichys fasciculata (Shaw, 1801)
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The long-tailed porcupine (Trichys fasciculata) is a species of rodent in the family Hystricidae found in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia. It is the only species in the genus Trichys.
It is a brown, rat-like animal covered in bristles except for its head and underneath its body. Its long tail can fall off when grabbed by predators, but does not regenerate.