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Erinaceidae (hedgehog)
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Taxonomy
Erinaceidae was named by Fischer von Waldheim (1817). It is extant.
It was assigned to Plantigradae by Gray (1821); to Bestiae by Bonaparte (1850); to Insectivora by Cope (1889); to Insectivora by Flower and Lydekker (1891), Freudenthal (1972), Nowak (1991) and Pickford et al. (2000); to Eulipotyphla by Madsen et al. (2001) and Douady et al. (2002); to Erinaceoidea by Schlosser (1877), Van Valen (1967) and Scott (2006); to Erinaceomorpha by Gregory (1910), Novacek et al. (1985) and van den Hoek Ostende and Fejfar (2006); and to Lipotyphla by Asher et al. (2005) and Asher and Helgen (2010).
It was assigned to Plantigradae by Gray (1821); to Bestiae by Bonaparte (1850); to Insectivora by Cope (1889); to Insectivora by Flower and Lydekker (1891), Freudenthal (1972), Nowak (1991) and Pickford et al. (2000); to Eulipotyphla by Madsen et al. (2001) and Douady et al. (2002); to Erinaceoidea by Schlosser (1877), Van Valen (1967) and Scott (2006); to Erinaceomorpha by Gregory (1910), Novacek et al. (1985) and van den Hoek Ostende and Fejfar (2006); and to Lipotyphla by Asher et al. (2005) and Asher and Helgen (2010).
Subtaxa
Amphechinus (syn. Palaeoerinaceus), Auroralestes (syn. Eolestes), Brachyericinae, Cedrocherus, Dartonius, Dimylechinus, Entomolestes, Erinaceinae, Galericinae (syn. Echinosoricinae, Anachantes), Galerix, Hylomyinae, Lanthanotherium, Leipsanolestes, Litolestes, Messelina, Neurogymnurus (syn. Cayluxotherium), Oncocherus, Palaeoscaptor, Parvericius, Proterix, Stenoechinus, Tupaiodontinae, Untermannerix
Sister taxa
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Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1817 | Erinaceidae Fischer von Waldheim |
| 1821 | Erinacidae Gray p. 300 |
| 1850 | Erinaceidae Bonaparte p. 1 |
| 1877 | Erinaceidae Schlosser p. 89 |
| 1887 | Adapisoricinae Schlosser |
| 1889 | Erinaceidae Cope p. 876 |
| 1891 | Erinaceidae Flower and Lydekker p. 92 |
| 1900 | Acanthionidae Schulze |
| 1910 | Erinaceidae Gregory p. 464 |
| 1967 | Adapisoricinae Van Valen |
| 1967 | Erinaceidae Van Valen |
| 1972 | Erinaceidae Freudenthal |
| 1983 | Litocherinae Gingerich |
| 1985 | Erinaceidae Novacek et al. p. 10 |
| 1991 | Erinaceidae Nowak |
| 2000 | Erinaceidae Pickford et al. p. 258 |
| 2001 | Erinaceidae Madsen et al. p. 611 |
| 2002 | Erinaceidae Douady et al. p. 204 |
| 2005 | Erinaceidae Asher et al. p. 920 |
| 2006 | Erinaceidae Scott p. 1697 |
| 2006 | Erinaceidae van den Hoek Ostende and Fejfar p. 176 |
| 2010 | Erinaceidae Asher and Helgen p. 3 figs. Figure 1 |
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