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--> ORDER ERINACEOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Erinaceidae
--> SUBFAMILY Erinaceinae
--> GENUS Atelerix
SPECIES Atelerix algirus
| Author: | Lereboullet, 1842. | | Citation: | Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Strasbourg, 3(2): art. QQ:4. | | Common Name: | North African Hedgehog | | Type Locality: | Algeria, "provient de Oran". | | Distribution: | Coastal Western Sahara to Algeria, Tunisia, and N Libya; introduced into Canary Isls, Balearic Isls, Malta, and Mediterranean France and Spain; one historical record from Puerto Rico. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Authorship is often credited to Duvernoy and Lereboullet, 1842, but Saint-Girons (1972) showed that Lereboullet was the only author. Hutterer (1983c) recognized vagans and girbanensis as subspecies. |
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