Cape porcupine

phylum	Chordata	The Cape porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis) or South African porcupine, is a species of Old World porcupine native to central and southern Africa. Cape porcupines are the largest rodents in Africa and also the world's largest porcupines. Cape porcupines seem to be the world's fourth heaviest living rodents, after the capybara and the Eurasian and North American beavers. They are similar in appearance to, and only slightly larger than, their close relatives, the crested porcupines, and can most easily be distinguished from them by the presence of a band of short white spines along the midline of the rump. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Old World porcupine
class	Mammalia
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Rodentia
family	Hystricidae
genus	Hystrix
species	H. africaeaustralis

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  Oenux small Cape porcupine

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  Schleich 70441 Crested porcupine