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GENUS Mesechinus

Author:Ognev, 1951.
Citation:Byull. Moskow. Ova. Ispyt. Prir. Otd. Biol., 56: 8.
Type Species:Erinaceus dauuricus Sundevall, 1842.
Comments:Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987:11) proposed to place Mesechinus as subgenus in Erinaceus while Corbet (1988:163) included it in Hemiechinus, as did Bannikova et al. (1996) based on molecular data. In a new dendrogram based on fingerprinting data, Bannikova et al. (2002) included dauuricus also in Hemiechinus; the species plotted next though rather distant to four H. auritus samples. Frost et al. (1991:30) concluded that Mesechinus deserves full generic status, a conclusion supported by Gould (1995) in his comprehensive re-analysis of morphological hedgehog characters, and by Korablev et al. (1996) on the basis of chromosomal data.
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SPECIES dauuricus

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