South African Cape Porcupine, Hystrix africaeaustralis; porcupine quills close up
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Description: English: A close up view of the quills of a South African Porcupine, or African Cape Porcupine, (Hystrix africaeaustralis), as it naps at the Mayaguez Zoo in Puerto Rico. Date: 28 April 2012, 12:26:06. Source: Own work. Author: Kati Fleming. Camera location 18° 13′ 02.12″ N, 67° 07′ 54.94″ W : View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth: 18.217255; -67.131928.
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- Metazoa (animals)
- Bilateria
- Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
- Chordata (Chordates)
- Vertebrata (vertebrates)
- Gnathostomata (jawed fish)
- Osteichthyes
- Sarcopterygii (Lobe-finned fishes)
- Tetrapoda (terrestrial vertebrates)
- Amniota
- Synapsida (synapsids)
- Therapsida (therapsid)
- Cynodontia (cynodonts)
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- Theria (Therians)
- Eutheria (eutherian)
- Placentalia (placental)
- Boreoeutheria
- Euarchontoglires
- Glires
- Rodentia (rodents)
- Ctenohystrica
- Hystricognathi
- Hystricidae (Old World porcupines)
- Hystrix
- Hystrix
- Hystrix africaeaustralis (African Porcupine)
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