Mesechinus hughi (Thomas, 1908)

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 79

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Mesechinus hughi (Thomas, 1908) . Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1908(63):44.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Paochi, Shen-si" = Baoji, Shaanxi Prov., China .

DISTRIBUTION: Known from around two localities in Shaanxi and Shanxi Prov., C China.

SYNONYMS: miodon, sylvaticus .

COMMENTS: Formerly included in Erinaceus europaeus by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:21), and in Hemiechinus dauuricus (here called Mesechinus dauuricus ) by Corbet (1978c:15). Includes H. sylvaticus described by Ma (1964:35). The form miodon, known from an isolated population in the Ordos desert, Shaanxi, has been alternatively assigned to M. dauuricus or to M. hughi , see discussion in Frost et al. (1991) for tenative placement here.