Mesechinus miodon
(O. Thomas, 1908)
Small-toothed Forest Hedgehog
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Eulipotyphla |
| Suborder | : Erinaceota |
| Family | : Erinaceidae |
| Subfamily | : Erinaceinae |
| Genus | : Mesechinus |
Species status
Authority citation
Thomas, O. 1908-12-15. Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., F.Z.S., read a paper on Mammals collected in the Provinces of Shan-si and Shen-si, Northern China, by Mr. M. P. Anderson, for the Duke of Bedford's Zoological Exploration of Eastern Asia. Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 63:44-45.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31939290Original name as described
Erinaceus miodon
Other common names
Miodont Forest Hedgehog
Type material
BMNH:Mamm:1909.1.1.9
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/2748c4df-a777-432c-81d4-e5f3ee3d01e4Type locality
"Yu-lin-fu [= Yulin], Shen-si [= Shaanxi], 4000' [= 1219 m]," China.
Biogeographic realm
Palearctic
Country distribution
China
Taxonomy notes
split from M. hughi
Taxonomy notes citation
Ai, H. S., He, K., Chen, Z. Z., Li, J. Q., Wan, T., Li, Q., ... & Jiang, X. L. (2018). Taxonomic revision of the genus Mesechinus (Mammalia: Erinaceidae) with description of a new species. Zoological research, 39(5), 335-347.
IUCN Red List status
Not Evaluated
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