| Brush-tailed porcupines Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent
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| African brush-tailed porcupine in the National Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Hystricidae |
| Genus: | Atherurus F. Cuvier, 1829 |
| Type species | |
| Hystrix macroura | |
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The brush-tailed porcupines are a genus, Atherurus, of Old World porcupines[1] found in Asia and Africa.
- ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.