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A hedgehog is a spiny mammal of the subfamily Erinaceinae, in the eulipotyphlan family Erinaceidae. There are 17 species of hedgehog in five genera found throughout parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, and in New Zealand by introduction.
European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) 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]
Erinaceidae / ˌ ɛr ɪ n ə ˈ s iː ɪ d iː / is a family in the order Eulipotyphla, consisting of the hedgehogs and moonrats.Until recently, it was assigned to the order Erinaceomorpha, which has been subsumed with the paraphyletic Soricomorpha into Eulipotyphla.
Eulipotyphla (/ ˌ j uː l ɪ p oʊ ˈ t ɪ f l ə /, from eu-+ Lipotyphla; sometimes called true insectivores [1]) is an order of mammals comprising the Erinaceidae (hedgehogs and gymnures); Solenodontidae (solenodons); Talpidae (moles, shrew-like moles and desmans); and Soricidae (true shrews) families.
Erinaceus is a genus of hedgehog from the family of Erinaceidae. There are four main species of Erinaceus. The range is all across Europe, throughout the Middle East, parts of Russia, and extending to northern China and Korea. The European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) has been introduced to New Zealand. [2] [3]
A boy from Guildford is hiking 50km (31 miles) on Saturday to raise money for a new hedgehog incubator. Orran, nine, aims to hike across the Surrey Hills with his dad in aid of the Wildlife Aid ...
The hedgehogs were created by artist Emma Scott at her studio at the Willow Craft Centre in St Issey. Last April the wooden hedgehogs were restored after birds used their coco fibre faces for ...
Members of the hedgehog family play key roles in a wide variety of developmental processes. [15] One of the best studied examples is the action of Sonic hedgehog during development of the vertebrate limb. The classic experiments [29] of Saunders and Gasseling in 1968 [30] on the development of the chick limb bud formed the basis of the ...