Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi Author Charles A. Woods text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 771 806 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353083 1-56098-217-9 7353083 Trichys Günther, 1877 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1876:739 [1877]. TYPE SPECIES: Trichys lipura Günther, 1877 (= Hystrix fasciculata Shaw, 1801 ). COMMENTS: Reviewed by Van Weers (1976) .