North American porcupine
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The North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum), also known as the Canadian porcupine, is a large quill-covered rodent in the New World porcupine family. It is the second largest rodent in North America after the North American beaver (Castor canadensis). The porcupine is a caviomorph rodent whose ancestors crossed the Atlantic from Africa to Brazil 30 million years ago,[5][6] and then migrated to North America during the Great American Interchange after the Isthmus of Panama rose 3 million years ago.[7]
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North American porcupine Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene – present (~130,000–0 YBP)[1] | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Erethizontidae |
Subfamily: | Erethizontinae |
Genus: | Erethizon |
Species: | E. dorsatum |
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Erethizon dorsatum | |
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