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Neotropical and North American Porcupines

Erethizontinae

The Erethizontinae is a subfamily of the New world porcupine family Erethizontidae, and includes all species of the family with the exception of the Bristle-spined rat, Chaetomys subspinosus, which is classified in its own subfamily, the Chaetomyinae.

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2 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first · about 18 known species

North American Porcupines

genusErethizon

Neotropical Porcupines

genusCoendou

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 846222.