Erinaceus concolor Martin, 1838

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 77

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

TYPE LOCALITY: Near Trabzon, Turkey .

DISTRIBUTION: E Europe; S Russia and W Siberia to River Ob; Asia Minor to Israel and Iran; Greek and Adriatic islands including Crete, Corfu, and Rhodes.

SYNONYMS: abasgicus, bolkayi, danubicus, drozdovskii, kievensis, nesiotes, pallidus, ponticus, rhodius, roumanicus, sacer , transcaucasicus.

COMMENTS: Formerly included in europaeus ; but see Kratochvil (1975), Krâl (1967), and Orlov (1969:6). Geographic variation is pronounced and some names (see above) possibly represent valid subspecies; see Giagia and Ondrias (1980) and Corbet (1988:142).