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The southern white-breasted hedgehog (Erinaceus concolor), sometimes referred to as white-bellied hedgehog or white-chested hedgehog, is a hedgehog native to Eastern Europe and Southwestern Asia. These hedgehogs are becomingly increasingly popular as pets in the United States and Iran.
Erinaceus is a genus of hedgehog from the family of Erinaceidae. There are four main species of Erinaceus . The range is all across Europe, throughout the Middle East, parts of Russia, and extending to northern China and Korea.
Genus Erinaceus – Linnaeus, 1758 – four species Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range ... E. concolor Martin, 1838: Western Asia (in orange)
Taxonomically, it was for a time considered to be a subspecies of E. europaeus, and later a subspecies of E. concolor.Since the 1990s, it has been considered a separate species in its own right, following new genetic and morphological studies, with five subspecies - E. roumanicus roumanicus, E. roumanicus bolkayi, E. roumanicus drozdovskii, E. roumanicus nesiotes, and E. roumanicus pallidus.
A hedgehog is a spiny mammal of the subfamily Erinaceinae, in the eulipotyphlan family Erinaceidae.There are 17 species of hedgehog in five genera found throughout parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, and in New Zealand by introduction.
Erinaceidae / ˌ ɛr ɪ n ə ˈ s iː ɪ d iː / is a family in the order Eulipotyphla, consisting of the hedgehogs and moonrats.Until recently, it was assigned to the order Erinaceomorpha, which has been subsumed with the paraphyletic Soricomorpha into Eulipotyphla.
Southern white-breasted hedgehog (Erinaceus concolor), a hedgehog of Western Asia Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title White-breasted hedgehog .
A list of mammals of Lithuania published in 1997 contains 68 species that are present in the country, including 14 bat species, 21 rodents, four shrews, two lagomorphs, one hedgehog, 13 carnivores, five whales and eight ungulates.