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Erethizon dorsatum (North american porcupine)

Erethizon dorsatum. Photo: (c) Don Kemball, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

The North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum), also known as the Canadian porcupine or common porcupine, is a large rodent in the New World porcupine family. The beaver is the only rodent in North America that is larger than the North American porcupine. The porcupine is a caviomorph rodent whose ancestors rafted across the Atlantic from Africa to Brazil over 30 million years ago, and then migrated to North America during the Great American Interchange after the…

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Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
  - Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
    - Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
      - Class: Mammalia (Mammals)
        Subclass: Theria (Therians)
        Infraclass: Placentalia (Placental mammals)
        Superorder: Euarchontoglires (Primates, rodents, and allies)
        Order: Rodentia (Rodents)
        Suborder: Hystricomorpha (Ctenohystricans)
        Infraorder: Hystricognathi (Hystricognaths)
        Superfamily: Erethizontoidea (New world porcupines)
        Family: Erethizontidae (New world porcupines)
        Subfamily: Erethizontinae (Neotropical and north american porcupines)
        Genus: Erethizon
        Species: Erethizon dorsatum (North american porcupine)

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Erethizon dorsatum (North american porcupine)

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