#0429 · 🦊 mammals
Indian Crested Porcupine
🇳🇱 Witstaartstekelvarken ·Hystrix indica
📍 Jerusalem
📍 8QW5+6XC, Upper Nihal, Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh 174001, India
📍 Uttarakhand, IN
📍 Büyükkale, Tire/İzmir, Türkiye
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Chriest · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 2. © Chriest · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Chriest · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © JanetandPhil · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © orijit · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Hana Raza · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Jerusalem:© ariellebh · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 8QW5+6XC, Upper Nihal, Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh 174001, India:© GURSEWAK SINGH · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Uttarakhand, IN:© pelagicgraf · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Büyükkale, Tire/İzmir, Türkiye:© Tandoğan ORUZ · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The Indian crested porcupine ( Hystrix indica ), or Indian porcupine , is a large species of hystricomorph rodent (order Rodentia) belonging to the Old World porcupine family, Hystricidae. It is native to southern Asia and the Middle East.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 2,577 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Robert Kerr in 1792 (234 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Indian Crested Porcupine
- Nederlands
- Witstaartstekelvarken
- scientific name
- Hystrix indica
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Rodentia
- family
- Hystricidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 2,577
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1792 by Robert Kerr
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Hystricidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 44175, Wikidata Q741524, GBIF 5219884, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.