Long-tailed Porcupine Fossil range: Middle Pleistocene - Recent
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
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.

[edit] References

• Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. Pp 1538-1600 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press of the, Washington D.C.

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