Synonymer

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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. Any of the large, arboreal, spiny-furred rodents of the family Erethizontidae, native to forests and wooded regions of North America and northern South America.

Exempel

  • New World porcupines, found in both North and South America, are arboreal and climb trees with agility, aided in some species by a prehensile tail.
  • The bizarre structure, shared with the New World porcupines, so impressed Stuart Landry that he argued for a common origin for the New World and Old World hystricomorphs long before the mainstream of biologists felt ready to do so (Pocock 1922; Dathe 1937; Landry 1957
  • New World porcupines have some arboreal adaptations that are lacking in their more terrestrial Old World counterparts.

Böjningsformer

PluralNew World porcupines