| Author: | Brandt, 1836. |
| Citation: | Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 1: 32. |
| Common Name: | Brandt’s Hedgehog |
| Type Locality: | "Pays de Turcomans", somewhere in S Kazakhstan. See Ognev (1927) for discussion. |
| Distribution: | Arid steppe and desert zones from Iran and Turkmenistan east almost to Tashkent (Uzbekistan), to the Indus River and N Pakistan; isolates in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen and on the islands of Tanb and Kharg in the Persian Gulf. |
| Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Hemiechinus hypomelas. |
| Comments: | Type species of Macroechinus Satunin. Includes eversmanni, sabaeus and seniculus as possible and blanfordi as a distinct subspecies; see Corbet (1988:155). Species reviewed by Nader (1991) and Harrison and Bates (1991). DNA sequence data of animals from Iran diverge strongly from P. aethiopicus (Morshed and Patton, 2002). |
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