Atelerix frontalis (A. Smith 1831)

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 : 213

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11340771

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scientific name

Atelerix frontalis (A. Smith 1831)
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Atelerix frontalis (A. Smith 1831) View in CoL

[Atelerix] frontalis (A. Smith 1831) View in CoL , South African Quart. J., 2: 10.

Type Locality: " Cape Colony"; restricted to South Africa, Eastern Cape Prov., northern parts of the Graaff Reinet district, by Ellerman et al. (1953).

Vernacular Names: Southern African Hedgehog.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Atelerix frontalis subsp. frontalis A. Smith 1831

Subspecies Atelerix frontalis subsp. angolae Thomas 1918

Distribution: S South Africa to E Botswana and W Zimbabwe; and Namibia to SW Angola.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Genus allocation uncertain. Results of Bannikova et al. (2002) obtained with the fingerprinting method indicate that frontalis does not form a monophyletic group with other species of Atelerix and thus may deserve a genus of its own. Meester et al. (1986:15) listed angolae as a valid subspecies.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Erinaceomorpha

Family

Erinaceidae

Genus

Atelerix

Loc

Atelerix frontalis (A. Smith 1831)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

[Atelerix] frontalis (A. Smith 1831)

A. Smith 1831: 10
1831
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