Hystrix capensis Grill, 1858

Hystrix capensis Grill, 1858: 19 .

COMMON NAME. — Cape Porcupine.

CURRENT NAME. — Hystrix africaeaustralis Peters, 1852 .

See Woods & Kilpatrick (2005: 1543) and Barthelmess (2016: 327).

COLLECTOR/S. — Two from the Cape collected alive recorded by Pierre Bernard Milius (Péron 1804a). See also Milius (1987: 57) and Jangoux et al. (2010: 269, 276).

COLLECTION LOCALITY. — Cape Town, South Africa.

COLLECTION DATE. — Before 24 Jan 1804.

SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — No specimen identified in MNHN collection.

COMMENTS. — Two specimens, male and female, were collected alive and taken back to France on board Le Géographe under the name of “porcs-epics vivants” (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1804c: 172; Girard 1856: 105). Upon arrival in France the animals were kept in the menagerie of the Muséum and fed bread and rice (Jangoux et al. 2010: 276).

ILLUSTRATIONS. — No data.