Order Rodentia (Part 6) Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 560 594 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353039 0-89327-235-3 7353039 Hystrix indica Kerr, 1792 . Anim. Kingdom, p. 213 . TYPE LOCALITY: India . DISTRIBUTION: Transcaucasus; Asia Minor ; Israel ; Arabia to S. Kazakhstan ( U.S. S.R.) and India ; Sri Lanka ; Tibet ( China ). COMMENT: Citation based on Smellie's Buffon, 1781 , 7: pl. 206. Gromov and Baranova, 1981: 102 , employed the name leucura for this species without reference to Kerr, 1792 . ISIS NUMBER: 5301410017002006001.