Hemiechinus Fitzinger, 1866 . Sitzb. Math-Nat. K. Akad. Wiss., 1:565.

REVIEWED BY: J. Meester (JM).

COMMENT: May be a subgenus of Erinaceus; see Gureev, 1979:168; Gromov and Baranova, 1981:9. Corbet, 1978:15 considered Hemiechinus a distinct genus.

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