Mesechinus Ognev, 1951

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 79

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Mesechinus Ognev, 1951 . Byull. Moskow. Ova. Ispyt. Prir. Otd. Biol., 56:8.

TYPE SPECIES: Erinaceus dauuricus Sundevall, 1842 .

COMMENTS: Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987: 11) proposed to place Mesechinus as subgenus in Erinaceus while Corbet (1988: 163) included it in Hemiechinus . Most recently, Frost et al. (1991:30) concluded that Mesechinus deserves full generic status.

References

Corbet, G. B. 1988. The family Erinaceidae: A synthesis of its taxonomy, phylogeny, ecology and zoogeography. Mammal Review, 18: 117 - 172.

Frost, D. R., W. C. Wozencraft, and R. S. Hoffmann. 1991. Phylogenetic relationships of hedgehogs and gymnures (Mammalia: Insectivora: Erinaceidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 518: 1 - 69.

Pavlinov, I. Ya., and O. L. Rossolimo. 1987. Sistematika mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Systematics of the mammals of the USSR.]. Moscow University Press, Moscow, 282 pp. (in Russian).