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SPECIES Mesechinus dauuricus
Author: | Sundevall, 1841. | Actual Date: | 1842 | Citation: | K. Svenska Vetensk.-Akad. Handl. Stockholm, 1841: 237. | Common Name: | Daurian Hedgehog | Type Locality: | Russia, Transbaikalia, "Dauuria" = Dauryia (49°57'N, 116°55'E). | Distribution: | NE Mongolia east to upper Amur Basin in Russia and adjacent parts of Inner Mongolia and W Manchuria, China. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Species sometimes included in Hemiechinus (Corbet and Hill, 1992), but see Frost et al. (1991) and Gould (1995). Includes and has precedence over sibiricus; see Corbet (1978c:15; 1988). A considerable confusion of names has occurred in the literature; see Corbet (1988:163). Possibly includes miodon, see comments under M. hughi. Chinese range mapped by Zhang et al. (1997). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
manchuricus (Mori, 1926) przewalskii (Satunin, 1907) sibiricus (Erxleben, 1777)
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