Crested Porcupine

Hystrix cristata

Order

Rodentia

Family

Hystricidae

Genus

Hystrix

IUCN status

LC

Distribution

Italy|Tunisia|Algeria|Morocco|Libya|Egypt|Mauritania|Mali|Senegal|Gambia|Guinea-Bissau|Guinea|Sierra Leone|Liberia|Cote d'Ivoire|Burkina Faso|Ghana|Togo|Benin|Nigeria|Cameroon|Chad|Central African Republic|Democratic Republic of the Congo|Sudan|South Sudan|Eritrea|Djibouti|Ethiopia|Somalia|Uganda|Kenya|Rwanda|Burundi|Tanzania

Realm

Afrotropic|Palearctic

Other names: North African Crested Porcupine