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Old World (Hystricid) and New World (Erethizontid) porcupines are remarkably similar. Both have long quills, a tubby body shape and cavimorph dentition.  

Old World (Hystricid) and New World (Erethizontid) porcupines are remarkably similar. Both have long quills, a tubby body shape and cavimorph dentition.  

[[File:Porcupine - Ялтинский зоопарк 079.jpg|thumbnail|An Old World Porcupine in a zoo at Yalta, Russia.]]

[[File:Porcupine - Ялтинский зоопарк 079.jpg|thumbnail|An Old World Porcupine in a zoo at Yalta, Russia.]]

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[[File:Hystrix brachyura, Malayan porcupine.jpg|thumbnail|left|A Malayan porcupine, ''Hystrix brachyura'', an Old World porcupine.]]

==Hypothesizing on traits of the original members of the porcupine baramin==

==Hypothesizing on traits of the original members of the porcupine baramin==