Sunda porcupine
| Sunda porcupine | |
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| Sunda porcupine at Ragunan Zoo | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Hystricidae |
| Genus: | Hystrix |
| Species: | H. javanica
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| Binomial name | |
| Hystrix javanica (F. Cuvier, 1823)
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range
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The Sunda porcupine also known as Javan porcupine (Hystrix javanica) is a species of
endemic to Indonesia
. Due to the popularity of the hunting and consumption of the Sunda porcupine as an aphrodisiac, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry in Indonesia has listed this species as a protected animal as of June 2018.
References
- . Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- Woods, C. A.; Kilpatrick, C. W. (2005), "Hystricognathi", in Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.), Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., Baltimore: ISBN 0-8018-8221-4