Erinaceus concolor Martin, 1838 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837:103.

TYPE LOCALITY: Turkey, near Trebizond .

DISTRIBUTION: E. Europe; S. Russia; Asia Minor to Israel.

COMMENT: Formerly included in europaeus; but see Kratochvil, 1975, Zool. Listy, 24:297-312; Kral, 1967, Zool. Listy, 16:239-252; Orlov, 1969, in II All-Union Theriol. Conf., p. 6, Novosibirsk. OLR includes this species in europaeus, as did Gureev, 1979:164, and Gromov and Baranova, 1981:9. Includes roumanicus; see Corbet, 1978:14.