Atherurus africanus — Overview

African Brush-tailed Porcupines learn more about names for this taxon

IUCN threat status:

Least Concern (LC)

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Range Description

This species is distributed from Guinea, Sierra Leone and The Gambia in West Africa eastwards in forested regions to Kenya. It has been recorded from sea level to the Cameroon Highlands. The species is also found on Bioko Island. A record from east of Lake Tanganyika (Kingdon 1974) is not shown in Swynnerton and Hayman (1951) or Kingdon 1997. It has been recorded up to 3,000 m asl.

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