Hystricidae G. Fischer, 1817

Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 771-806 : 773

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scientific name	Hystricidae G. Fischer, 1817
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Family Hystricidae G. Fischer, 1817 View in CoL . Mém. Soc. Imp. Nat., Moscow, 5:372.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Mohr (1965) and by Van Weers (1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1983). Usually divided into two subfamilies (Atherurinae, Hystricinae), but Van Weers did not agree.