Paraechinus Trouessart, 1879 . Rev. Mag. Zool. Paris, ser. 3, 7:242.

REVIEWED BY: J. Meester (JM).

COMMENT: May be a subgenus of Erinaceus; see Gureev, 1979:176. Corbet and Hill, 1980:25 and Corbet, 1978:16, considered Paraechinus a distinct genus.

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