Erinaceidae G. Fischer 1814

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Erinaceomorpha, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 212-219 : 212

Erinaceidae G. Fischer 1814

Erinaceidae G. Fischer 1814 , Zoognosia Tabulis Synopticis Illustrata, Vol. 3: ix.

Genera: 10 genera with 24 species in 2 subfamilies:

Subfamily Erinaceinae G. Fischer 1814

Genus Atelerix Pomel 1848 (4 species with 5 subspecies)

Genus Erinaceus Linnaeus 1758 (4 species with 8 subspecies)

Genus Hemiechinus Fitzinger 1866 (2 species with 5 subspecies)

Genus Mesechinus Ognev 1951 (2 species)

Genus Paraechinus Trouessart 1879 (4 species with 10 subspecies)

Subfamily Galericinae Pomel 1848

Genus Echinosorex Blainville 1838 (1 species with 2 subspecies)

Genus Hylomys Müller 1840 (3 species with 7 subspecies)

Genus Neohylomys Shaw and Wong 1959 (1 species)

Genus Neotetracus Trouessart 1909 (1 species)

Genus Podogymnura Mearns 1905 (2 species)

Discussion: Name often accredited to Bonaparte, 1838. Reviewed by Corbet (1988), Frost et al. (1991), and Gould (1995). Bannikova et al. (2002) reviewed the phylogenetic relations of most extant genera using the fingerprinting method. Includes Tupaiodontinae Butler, 1988 and Brachyericinae Butler, 1948 as extinct subfamilies ( Lopatin and Zazhigin, 2003).