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Hemiechinus
Taxonomy
Hemiechinus was named by Fitzinger (1866). It is extant. It was considered paraphyletic by Gould (1995).
It was assigned to Erinaceinae by Gould (1995); to Erinaceini by Van Valen (1967), McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Erinaceomorpha by Silcox et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Erinaceinae by Gould (1995); to Erinaceini by Van Valen (1967), McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Erinaceomorpha by Silcox et al. (2010).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1842 | Ericius Sundevall |
| 1866 | Hemiechinus Fitzinger p. 565 |
| 1907 | Macroechinus Satunin |
| 1928 | Erinaceolus Ognev |
| 1967 | Hemiechinus Van Valen |
| 1967 | Paraechinus Van Valen |
| 1995 | Hemiechinus Gould p. 7 |
| 1997 | Hemiechinus McKenna and Bell p. 279 |
| 2010 | Hemiechinus Silcox et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Hemiechinus Fitzinger 1866
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Hemiechinus auritus Gmelin 1770
Invalid names: Ericius Sundevall 1842 [synonym], Erinaceolus Ognev 1928 [synonym], Paraechinus [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Ruscinian to the top of the Villafranchian or 5.09000 to 1.80000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 1.8 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 1.8 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Ruscinian - Villafranchian | Hungary (Barany) | H. samsonowiczi (35354) |