Atelerix frontalis

(A. Smith, 1831)

Southern African Hedgehog

Captive in rolled-up defensive posture. Formerly Erinaceomorpha. Also as Cape Hedgehog|South African Hedgehog.
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Location:South Africa, Northern Cape, Victoria WestDate taken:Jan 1, 1974

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 205

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Eulipotyphla
Suborder : Erinaceota
Superfamily : Erinaceoidea
Family : Erinaceidae
Subfamily : Erinaceinae
Tribe : Erinaceini
Genus : Atelerix

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Smith, A. 1831-10. Contributions to the natural history of South Africa. South African Quarterly Journal (1)5:9-24.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15969309

Original name as described

Erinaceus frontalis

Other common names

Cape Hedgehog · South African Hedgehog

Type locality

"South Africa." Restricted by J. R. Ellerman and colleagues in 1953 to "northern parts of the district of Graaff Reinet, Cape Province, " South Africa.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Angola · Namibia · Botswana · Zimbabwe · South Africa · Lesotho?

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003806

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 14 names and synonyms.

Erinaceus Capensis

(A. Smith, 1831)

Family

Erinaceidae

Root name

capensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_nudum

Authority page

11

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12861419

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Name usages

  1. Smith (1831:11, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12861419) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67684)
  2. Smith (1831:61, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/819699) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67711)
  3. Smuts (1832:8, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43088729) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/60235)
  4. Lesson (1842:94) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)
  5. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9704)

Erinaceus frontalis

(A. Smith, 1831)

Family

Erinaceidae

Root name

frontalis

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

10

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15969309

Authority publication

South African Quarterly Journal

Name usages

  1. Smith (1831:10, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15969309) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67803)
  2. Bennett (1833:193, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12861791) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67710)
  3. Smith (1838:pl. 3, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51577707) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67637)
  4. Smith (1842:148, https://books.google.com/books?id=DvE_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA148) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67141)
  5. Lesson (1842:94) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)
  6. Sundevall (1842:226, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51039353) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67816)
  7. Giebel (1855:921, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45549112) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38563)
  8. Murray (1866:344, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15580340) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39798)
  9. Fitzinger (1867:854, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6477594) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/47988)
  10. Trouessart (1880:241, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41150438) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58782)
  11. Rochebrune (1883:99, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26187552) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/43667)
  12. Noack (1891:116, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7781006) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38509)
  13. Anderson (1895:419, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30983406) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67789)
  14. Trouessart (1904:128, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53422957) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59289)
  15. Roberts (1913:75, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50439533) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/17656)
  16. Ellerman, Morrison-Scott & Hayman (1953:18) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34033)
  17. Scaramella, Russo & D'Errico (1975:281, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56633907) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/40699)
  18. Corbet & Hill (1980:24) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  19. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:65, 66) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)

Erinaceus fractilis

(W. C. H. Peters, 1877)

Family

Erinaceidae

Root name

fractilis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

79

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8796799

Authority publication

Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9704)

Erinaceus diadematus

(Dobson, 1882)

Family

Erinaceidae

Root name

diadematus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

misidentification

Authority page

10

Authority publication

London

Name usages

  1. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9704)
  2. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9704)

Aethechinus angolae

(O. Thomas, 1918)

Family

Erinaceidae

Root name

angolae

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1864.8.16.4

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/a01cfba8-8777-40c4-a686-d3aedcb10e3d

Authority page

230

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18641665

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Æthechinus frontalis angolæ

(O. Thomas, 1929)

Family

Erinaceidae

Root name

angolae

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

101

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Name usages

  1. Thomas (1929:101) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/14027)
  2. Shortridge (1934:27) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69309)
  3. Allen (1939:20, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2782038) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5450)

Æthechinus frontalis

(O. Thomas, 1929)

Family

Erinaceidae

Root name

frontalis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

101

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Name usages

  1. Thomas (1929:101) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/14027)
  2. Shortridge (1934:27) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69309)
  3. Allen (1939:20, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2782038) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5450)

Æthechinus frontalis frontalis

(Shortridge, 1934)

Family

Erinaceidae

Root name

frontalis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

27

Authority publication

London

Name usages

  1. Shortridge (1934:27) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69309)
  2. Allen (1939:20, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2782038) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5450)

Atelerix frontalis

A. Roberts, 1937

Family

Erinaceidae

Root name

frontalis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

77

Authority publication

South African Journal of Science

Name usages

  1. Roberts (1937:77) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35343)
  2. Hill & Carter (1941:17) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/16955)
  3. Meester, Rautenbach, Dippenaar & Baker (1986:15) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/17614)
  4. Corbet (1988:151) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/3628)
  5. Corbet & Hill (1991:28) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  6. Frost, Wozencraft & Hoffmann (1991:32) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/3617)
  7. Hutterer (1993:77) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/65737)
  8. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9704)
  9. Happold & Happold (2013:34) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)
  10. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #2274) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  11. Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:322) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)
  12. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #2274) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  13. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003806) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  14. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/2274/115061260) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Atelerix frontalis angolae

J. Eric Hill & T. D. Carter, 1941

Family

Erinaceidae

Root name

angolae

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

17

Authority publication

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Hill & Carter (1941:17) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/16955)
  2. Meester, Rautenbach, Dippenaar & Baker (1986:15) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/17614)
  3. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9704)
  4. Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:322) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)

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