Erinaceidae is a family of small mammals in the order Eulipotyphla. A member of this family is called an erinaceid, and the family includes hedgehogs and gymnures. Erinaceidae is one of four families in the order Eulipotyphla.[1] They are found in Africa, Europe, and Asia, primarily in forests, shrublands, savannas, and grasslands, though some species can also be found in deserts, rocky areas, or caves. They range in size from the gymnures in the Hylomys genus, at 9 cm (4 in) plus a 1 cm (0.4 in) tail, to the moonrat, at 46 cm (18 in) plus a 30 cm (12 in) tail. Erinaceids are omnivorous and primarily eat insects and small vertebrates such as lizards, though they also consume plants, eggs, and fungi. Hedgehogs all have spines on their backs, while gymnures have fur. No erinaceids have population estimates, but the Hainan gymnure and Dinagat gymnure are categorized as endangered species.
The twenty-four extant species of Erinaceidae are divided into two subfamilies: Erinaceinae, containing sixteen hedgehog species in five genera, and Galericinae, containing eight gymnure species in five genera. A few extinct prehistoric Erinaceidae species have been discovered, though due to ongoing research and discoveries the exact number and categorization is not fixed.[2]
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4 in) tail, to the moonrat, at 46 cm (18 in) plus a 30 cm (12 in) tail. Erinaceids are omnivorous and primarily eat insects and small vertebrates such as...
hiding places. Erinaceids are solitary animals outside the breeding season, and the father plays no role in raising the young. Female erinaceids give birth...
prefer Hylomyinae because the specific relationships of the extinct genus Galerix to living erinaceids are uncertain. There are fifteen extant species in...
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Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed 529 vulnerable mammalian species. Of all evaluated mammalian species, 9.6% are listed as vulnerable. The IUCN...
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by both the IUCN and the American Society of Mammalogists. Members of the Erinaceidae family are erinaceids, and include hedgehogs and gymnures. Erinaceidae...
erinaceomorphs (Erinaceomorpha) are a suborder of placental mammals that includes a single family, the erinaceids (Erinaceidae), formerly included in the former...
Pisa: Pacini. Butler, M., 1980. The giant erinaceid insectivore, Deinogalerix Freudenthal, from the upper Miocene of Gargano, Italy. Scripta Geologica 57,...
suggests that solenodons are a sister group to a clade of shrews, moles, and erinaceids, with a molecular clock, providing evidence that the split from the other...
lived alongside a wide variety of small mammals including various rodents, the leporid Desmatolagus, and the erinaceid Palaeoscaptor. Sympatric predators...
of high biodiversity among the Iberian Early Holocene bat communities, is published by Galán García et al. (2022). Fossil material of the erinaceid Galerix...
of Eptesicus praeglacialis is described from the Lower Pleistocene deposits of the Taurida cave (Crimea) by Lopatin (2023). Revision of the erinaceid...
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Masini; Paul P. A. Mazza (2018). "The tangled cases of Deinogalerix (Late Miocene endemic erinaceidof Gargano) and Galericini (Eulipotyphla, Erinaceidae):...
alligatorid, namely Orthogenysuchus, was also found in this formation. Listof fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Wyoming Paleontology in Wyoming Tatman...
This paleomammalogy list records new fossil mammal taxa that were described during the year 2009, as well as notes other significant paleomammalogy discoveries...
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of small mammals would have coexisted with Asiavorator in this habitat, such as several rodent species, the lagomorph Desmatolagus and the erinaceid Palaeoscaptor...
This paleomammalogy list records new fossil mammal taxa that were described during the year 2014, as well as notes other significant paleomammalogy discoveries...
morphology of three lineages of stem erinaceid eulipotyphlans from the Bighorn Basin (Wyoming, United States), aiming to determine whether the evolution of these...
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