The Systematic Position of a Large Porcupine
(Hystrix, Hystricidae, Rodentia) from the Pleistocene
of Vietnam (Lang Trang Cave)
Academician A. V. Lopatina,*
a Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy
of Sciences, Moscow, 117647 Russia
Correspondence to: *e-mail: alopat@paleo.ru
Received 2 July, 2020
Abstract—The dental remains of the porcupine from the Pleistocene deposits of the Lang Trang cave in northern Vietnam are described. Previously, this porcupine was identified as Hystrix brachyura Linnaeus, 1758 or H. indica Kerr, 1792. Based on the analysis of morphometric data, the systematic position of the form from Lang Trang and other large Pleistocene porcupines of Vietnam is determined as Hystrix kiangsenensis Wang, 1931.
Keywords: Hystrix brachyura, H. subcristata, H. indica, H. kiangsenensis, Hystricidae, Rodentia, Old World porcupines, Pleistocene, Lang Trang cave, Vietnam
DOI: 10.1134/S001249662006006X