| Author: | A. Smith, 1831. |
| Citation: | S. Afr. Quart. J., 2: 10, 29. |
| Common Name: | Southern African Hedgehog |
| Type Locality: | "Cape Colony"; restricted to South Africa, Eastern Cape Prov., northern parts of the Graaff Reinet district, by Ellerman et al. (1953). |
| Distribution: | S South Africa to E Botswana and W Zimbabwe; and Namibia to SW Angola. |
| Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). |
| Comments: | Genus allocation uncertain. Results of Bannikova et al. (2002) obtained with the fingerprinting method indicate that frontalis does not form a monophyletic group with other species of Atelerix and thus may deserve a genus of its own. Meester et al. (1986:15) listed angolae as a valid subspecies. |
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