Mammalia - Tribosphenida - Erinaceidae
Alternative spelling: Erinacidae
Synonym: Acanthionidae Schulze 1900
Parent taxon: Lipotyphla according to W. W. Korth and R. L. Evander 2016
See also Asher et al. 2005, Asher and Helgen 2010, Bendukidze et al. 2009, Bonaparte 1850, Butler 1984, Cope 1889, Crespo et al. 2020, Dawson and Constenius 2018, Douady et al. 2002, Eberle et al. 2014, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Freudenthal 1972, Gray 1821, Gregory 1910, Hay 1930, Jaekel 1911, Johnson 1966, Korth et al. 2022, Kurten 1968, Lopatin 2006, Madsen et al. 2001, Novacek et al. 1985, Nowak 1991, Pickford et al. 2000, Pickford et al. 2008, Savorelli et al. 2017, Schlosser 1877, Scott 2006, van den Hoek Ostende and Fejfar 2006, Van Valen 1967 and Wilson and Reeder 2005
Sister taxa: Erinaceomorpha, Ghamidtherium, Soricomorpha, Solenodontidae, Pantolestoidae, Aethomylos, Erinaceoidae
Subtaxa: Adapisoricinae Brachyericinae Cedrocherus Changlelestinae Dimylechinus Entomolestes Erinaceinae Galericinae Galerix Hylomyinae Lantanotherium Lanthanotherium Litocherinae Litolestes Luchenus Mellalechinus Oncocherus Palaeoscaptor Silvacola
Ecology: semifossorial insectivore-carnivore