Crested Porcupine
Hystrix cristata
Mount Kenya National Park is the atlas place where the Crested Porcupine is recorded. Its records concentrate in Italy, Algeria, Benin, Uganda and Kenya, and the atlas holds 122 open records of the species from 11 countries. This mammal, also known as Hystrix cristata, is documented across its range through these observations, providing a clear map of where travellers and researchers have reported its presence.
- Records
- 122
- Countries
- 11
- Atlas places
- 1
These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Crested Porcupine as much as where it lives. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.
Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.
- Very likelyItaly25 km zone · medium confidence · 97 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyAlgeria25 km zone · medium confidence · 11 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyBenin25 km zone · medium confidence · 5 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyUganda25 km zone · medium confidence · 4 records · updated 40 days ago
- LikelyKenya25 km zone · medium confidence · 3 records · updated 40 days ago
- LikelyNigeria25 km zone · medium confidence · 2 records · updated 40 days ago
- UncommonBurkina Faso25 km zone · low confidence · 0 records · updated 40 days ago
- UncommonCôte d’Ivoire25 km zone · low confidence · 0 records · updated 40 days ago
- UncommonMorocco25 km zone · low confidence · 0 records · updated 40 days ago
- UncommonNiger25 km zone · low confidence · 0 records · updated 40 days ago
Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.
