Hemiechinus auritus

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Ecology: H. auritus inhabits different types of dry steppes , semi-deserts and deserts. It prefers dry river valleys, gullies, forest shelter belts , abandoned irrigation ditches and shrubby areas, and often settles in oases and around human settlements (sometimes in cultivated habitats ). It avoids tugais and high herbage .

This mainly solitary, nocturnal species lives in burrows that it usually digs itself, although sometimes it occupies abandoned burrows of turtles, gerbils, foxes and otters . It hibernates in the winter and may also aestivate in hot, dry weather.[1].

List of Habitats:

•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.4     Shrubland - Temperate   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     8     Desert   
  
•     8.2     Desert - Temperate   
  
•     8.3     Desert - Cold   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Gmelin,S.G. Reise Russl.Vol.1, 1770.

Last scrutiny: 28-Nov-2006

Similar Species

Members of the genus Hemiechinus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 8 species and subspecies in this genus:

H. aethiopicus (Desert Hedgehog) · H. auritus (Long-Eared Hedgehog) · H. auritus auritus (Long-Eared Hedgehog) · H. auritus persicus (Long-Eared Hedgehog) · H. collaris (Collared Hedgehog) · H. hypomelas (Brandt's Hedgehog) · H. micropus (Indian Hedgehog) · H. nudiventris (Southern Indian Hedgehog)

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Further Reading

• A history of British mammals / London: Gurney and Jackson, 1910-[1921]. url , , , .
• A history of British mammals, by Gerald E. H. Barrett-Hamilton. .. With twenty-seven full-page plates in colour, fifty-four in black and white, and upwards of two hundred and fifty smaller illustrations, drawn by Edward A. Wilson London: Gurney and Jackson, 1910-1921. url p. 46.
• A study of the mammals of Iran: resulting from the Street Expedition of 1962-63 [by] Douglas M. Lay. 54 1967 [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1967. url fig. 29 , p. 105, p. 120, p. 278, p. 76, p. 85.
• A survey of the mammals of Afghanistan, resulting from the 1965 Street Expedition (excluding bats) [by] Jerry D. Hassinger. 60 1973 [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1973. url table 1 , table 2 , p. 10, p. 12, p. 13, p. 14, p. 17, p. xi.
• Advances in the study of mammalian behavior / edited by John F. Eisenberg and Devra G. Kleiman. [Stillwater, Okla.]: American Society of Mammalogists; 1983. url p. 277, p. 84, p. 86.
• An environmental profile of the Black Sea Coast WCMC url p. 99.
• Animal life in deserts, a study of the fauna in relation to the environment. LondonE. Arnold1923 url p. 83.
• Biosphere Reserves, Compilation 4, October 1986: programme on man and the biosphere (MAB) IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url p. 294.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 56.
• Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946 / by J.R. Ellerman and T.C.S. Morrison-Scott. London: BM(NH), 1966. url p. 23, p. 24, p. 26, p. 23, p. 24, p. 26.
• IUCN Directory of South Asian Protected Areas IUCN url p. 145, p. 286.
• Introduction to the mammal survey of the 1965 Street Expedition to Afghanistan [by] Jerry D. Hassinger. 55 1968 [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1968. url p. 64.
• Mammals of the Soviet Union / V.G. Heptner, A.A. Nasimovich, and A.G. Bannikov; scientific editor, Robert S. Hoffmann. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Libraries and National Science Foundation, 1988- url p. 423, p. 518.
• Morphological parallelisms of the bulla and auditory ossicles in some insectivores and marsupials. 51 1970 [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1970. url p. 187.
• Nature Reserves of the Himalaya and the Mountains of Central Asia IUCN url p. 465, p. 6.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 555, p. 556, p. 694.
• The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Bombay: The Society, url , p. 303, p. 474, p. 748.
• The anthropology of Iraq. The Upper Euphrates / by Henry Field, Curator of Physical Anthropology. Chicago:Field Museum, 1940 url p. 157, p. 219.
• The contemporary land mammals of Egypt (including Sinai) / Dale J. Osborn, Ibrahim Helmy. 5 1980 [Chicago]: Field Museum of Natural History, 1980. url table 2-3 , fig. 24 , p. 239, p. 53, p. 57, p. 59, p. 60, p. 61, p. 62, p. iv, p. x, p. xv.
• The fauna from the terminal Pleistocene of Palegawra Cave, a Zarzian occupation site in northeastern Iraq / Priscilla F. Turnbull -- and Charles A. Reed --. [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1974. url p. 92, p. 94.
• The mammals of China and Mongolia / by Glover M. Allen. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1938-1940. url p. 45.
• The mammals of the Caucasus; a history of the evolution of the fauna. (Mlekopitayushchie Kavkaza; istoriya formirovaniya fauny). [By] N. K. Vereskchagin. Chief editor: E. N. Pavlovskii. Editor of this volume: A. A. Strelkov. Translated from Russian [by A. Lerman and B. Rabinovich. Edited by M. Loeb] Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations [available from the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Va.], 1967. url p. 149, p. 178, p. 186, p. 215, p. 216, p. 222, p. 228, p. 464, p. 537.
• Veröffentlichungen der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München. München: Die Staatssammlung, url p. 167, p. 219.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Stubbe, M., Samiya, R., Ariunbold, J., Buuveibaatar, V., Dorjderem, S., Monkhzul, Ts., Otgonbaatar, M., Tsogbadrakh, M., Zagorodniuk, I., Amori, G., Hutterer, R., Kryštufek, B., Yigit, N., Mitsain, G. & Muñoz, L.J.P. 2008. Hemiechinus auritus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 17, 2007:

• Field Museum, Mammal specimens
• Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Israel Nature and Parks Authority
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• Royal Ontario Museum, Mammal specimens
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Mammals
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
• , Mammal specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 106773
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-633542
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13803817
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 633542
• IUCN ID: 213611
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 150192

Footnotes

1. Stubbe, M., Samiya, R., Ariunbold, J., Buuveibaatar, V., Dorjderem, S., Monkhzul, Ts., Otgonbaatar, M., Tsogbadrakh, M., Zagorodniuk, I., Amori, G., Hutterer, R., Kryštufek, B., Yigit, N., Mitsain, G. & Muñoz, L.J.P. 2008. Hemiechinus auritus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 01 February 2012. [back]

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