Order Rodentia - Family Hystricidae Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2 1542 1544 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 Trichys Günther 1876 Trichys Günther 1876 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1876: 739 . Type Species: Trichys lipura Günther 1877 Species and subspecies: 1 species: Species Trichys fasciculata (Shaw 1801) Discussion: Reviewed by Van Weers (1976) .