Hystrix indica Kerr, 1792 . In Linnaeus, Anim. Kingdom, p. 213.

TYPE LOCALITY: India .

DISTRIBUTION: Transcaucasus; Asia Minor; Israel; Arabia to S Kazakhstan and India; Sri Lanka; Tibet (China).

STATUS: Locally common.

SYNONYMS: aharonii, blanfordi, cuneiceps, hirsutirostris, leucurus, malabarica, mersinae, mesopotamica, narynensis, satunini, schmidtzi, zeylonensis.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Hystrix . Citation based on Smellie's translation of Buffon (1781:206). Gromov and Baranova (1981:102) employed the name leucura for this species without reference to Kerr, 1792.