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North American Porcupine

Erethizon dorsatum (Linnaeus 1758)

Scientific Names

Preferred Names

Erethizon dorsatum
Species recognized by Kissling et al, 2014, Belgium Species List, Canada Species List, Mexico Species List, North Atlantic Species List, North Pacific Species List, NCBI, EOL authors, Mikmaq names, Wildfinder (WWF), and United States Species List
Erethizon dorsatum
Recognized by Animal Diversity Web and Pantheria
Erethizon dorsatum (Linnaeus 1758)
Species recognized by EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1 and EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1
Erethizon dorsatum (Linnaeus 1758)
Recognized by Freshwater and Marine Image Bank U Washington and Conabio
Erethizon dorsatum
Recognized by PlanetScott
Erethizon dorsatum (Linnaeus 1758)
Species recognized by IUCN

Common Names

English

North American porcupine preferred
Recognized by Animal Diversity Web
North American Porcupine
prefer
Recognized by PlanetScott

Miꞌkmaq

Matues preferred
Recognized by Mikmaq names
Năbegŏk
prefer
Recognized by Mikmaq names

Spanish; Castilian

Puerco espín norteño preferred
Recognized by Conabio

Curated hierarchies for Erethizon dorsatum (Linnaeus 1758)

EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1

Life
Cellular Organisms
Eukaryota
Opisthokonta
Metazoa
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Osteichthyes
Sarcopterygii
Tetrapoda
Amniota
Synapsida
Therapsida
Cynodontia
Mammalia
Theria
Eutheria
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Euarchontoglires
Glires
Rodentia
Ctenohystrica
Hystricognathi
Caviomorpha
Erethizontidae
Erethizontinae
Erethizon
Erethizon dorsatum (Linnaeus 1758) (this page)
Erethizon dorsatum bruneri Swenk 1916
Erethizon dorsatum dorsatum Linneaus 1758
Erethizon dorsatum epixanthum Brandt 1835
Erethizon dorsatum myops Merriam 1900
Erethizon dorsatum picinum Bangs 1900
Erethizon dorsatus (Linnaeus 1758)
Erethizon dorsatus bruneri Swenk 1916
Erethizon dorsatus couesi Mearns 1897
Erethizon dorsatus dorsatus (Linnaeus 1758)
Erethizon dorsatus epixanthus Brandt 1835
Erethizon dorsatus myops Merriam 1900
Erethizon dorsatus nigrescens Allen 1903
Erethizon dorsatus picinus Bangs 1900

IUCN

Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Erethizontidae
Erethizon dorsatum (Linnaeus 1758) (this page)
Chaetomys subspinosus (Olfers 1818)
Coendou bicolor (Tschudi 1844)
Coendou ichillus Voss & da Silva 2001
Coendou insidiosus Lichtenstein 1818
Coendou melanurus
Coendou mexicanus Kerr 1792
Coendou nycthemera (Olfers 1818)
Coendou pruinosus Thomas 1905
Coendou quichua Thomas 1899
Coendou roosmalenorum Voss & da Silva 2001
Coendou rufescens (Gray 1865)
Coendou spinosus F. Cuvier 1823
Coendou vestitus Thomas 1899

NCBI

root
cellular organisms
Eukaryota
Opisthokonta
Metazoa
Eumetazoa
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata
Craniata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Teleostomi
Euteleostomi
Sarcopterygii
Dipnotetrapodomorpha
Tetrapoda
Amniota
Mammalia
Theria
Eutheria
Boreoeutheria
Euarchontoglires
Glires
Rodentia
Hystricomorpha
Erethizontidae
Erethizon
Erethizon dorsatum (this page)
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