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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.
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The author thanks E.N. Maschenko, N.V. Serdyuk, A.A. Lozovsky (PIN), and Le Xuan Dac (Institute of Tropical Ecology of the Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Scientific and Technological Center, Hanoi, Vietnam) for participation in collecting of materials in the Lang Trang cave in March 2020, A.N. Kuznetsov and S.P. Kuznetsova (Tropical Center) for their assistance in organizing the expedition, A.M. Kuznetsov and S.V. Bagirov (PIN) for their help in preparing photographs.
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The study was carried out as part of the work of the Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Scientific and Technological Center for 2020–2022 (project “The Composition of the Fauna of Primates (Cercopithecidae, Pongidae) and Rodents (Rodentia) of the Pleistocene and Holocene of Vietnam as an Indicator of Environmental Change”).
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Lopatin, A.V. The Systematic Position of a Large Porcupine (Hystrix, Hystricidae, Rodentia) from the Pleistocene of Vietnam (Lang Trang Cave). Dokl Biol Sci 495, 283–287 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S001249662006006X
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