North American porcupine

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• North American Porcupine — Temporal range: Late Pliocene Recent BioDome, Montreal Conservation status …   Wikipedia

• North American porcupine — ursonas statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas taksono rangas rūšis atitikmenys: lot. Erethizon dorsatum angl. American porcupine; Canadian porcupine; North American porcupine vok. Urson rus. североамериканский дикобраз pranc. porc épic nord… …   Žinduolių pavadinimų žodynas

• American porcupine — ursonas statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas taksono rangas rūšis atitikmenys: lot. Erethizon dorsatum angl. American porcupine; Canadian porcupine; North American porcupine vok. Urson rus. североамериканский дикобраз pranc. porc épic nord… …   Žinduolių pavadinimų žodynas

• List of North American mammals — This is a list of North American mammals. It includes all mammals currently found in North America north of Mexico, whether resident or as migrants. It does not include species found only in captivity. Mammal species recently presumed extinct… …   Wikipedia

• porcupine — /pawr kyeuh puyn /, n. any of several rodents covered with stiff, sharp, erectile spines or quills, as Erethizon dorsatum of North America. [1375 1425; late ME porcupyne, var. of porcapyne; r. porke despyne < MF porc d espine thorny pig. See PORK …   Universalium

• Porcupine — Taxobox name = Porcikupines| image caption = North American Porcupine regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Rodentia subordo = Hystricomorpha subdivision ranks = General subdivision = Family Erethizontidae : Coendou :… …   Wikipedia

• American Indians —     American Indians     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► American Indians     GENERAL     When Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in 1492 he was welcomed by a brown skinned people whose physical appearance confirmed him in his opinion that… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• American literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the English language in the United States.       Like other national literatures, American literature was shaped by the history of the country that produced it. For almost a century and a… …   Universalium

• New World porcupine — New World Porcupines Temporal range: Late Oligocene–Recent …   Wikipedia

• Native American art — ▪ visual arts Introduction also called  Indian art  or  American Indian art        the visual art of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Americas, often called American Indians. For a further discussion of the visual art of the Americas produced in …   Universalium

• Great American Interchange — The Great American Interchange was an important paleozoogeographic event in which land and freshwater fauna migrated from North America via Central America to South America and vice versa, as the volcanic Isthmus of Panama rose up from the sea… …   Wikipedia