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GENUS Hemiechinus
| Author: | Fitzinger, 1866. | | Citation: | Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 54(1): 565. | | Type Species: | Erinaceus platyotis Sundevall, 1842 (= Erinaceus auritus Gmelin, 1770). | | Comments: | Regarded as a subgenus of Erinaceus by Gureev (1979:168) and Gromov and Baranova (1981:9). Corbet (1978c:15) considered Hemiechinus a distinct genus, later reviewed by Corbet (1988), who included Mesechinus, see comments therein. Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987:12-13) included Paraechinus in Hemiechinus as a valid subgenus, as did Frost et al. (1991:27), while Corbet (1988) argued for a generic separation of Paraechinus. Morshed and Patton (2002) analyzed a part of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene of Hemiechinus auritus, Paraechinus aethiopicus and P. hypomelas and found that Hemiechinus is paraphyletic with respect to Paraechinus. Bannikova et al. (2002) used the fingerprinting method to analyze the relationships between Erinaceus, Hemiechinus, Paraechinus, Atelerix and Neotetracus. They also found that Hemiechinus and Paraechinus do not form a monophyletic group. The present list therefore returns to the former practice of keeping Hemiechinus and Paraechinus as distinct genera, contra Frost et al. (1991). |
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