Erinaceus concolor Martin 1837

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Erinaceomorpha, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 212-219 : 213

Erinaceus concolor Martin 1837

Erinaceus concolor Martin 1837 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837: 103.

Type Locality: Turkey, near Trabzon.

Vernacular Names: Southern White-Breasted Hedgehog.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Erinaceus concolor subsp. concolor Martin 1837

Subspecies Erinaceus concolor subsp. rhodius Festa 1914

Subspecies Erinaceus concolor subsp. transcaucasicus Satunin 1905

Distribution: Asia Minor to Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran; S Caucasus.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Formerly included in europaeus ; but see Kratochvíl (1975), Kral (1967), Orlov (1969), Suchentrunk et al. (1998), among others. Recently two genotypes have been discovered ( Filippucci and Simson, 1996, Santucci et al., 1998, Seddon et al., 2002) that correspond to two morphotypes (Kryštufek, 2002 b; Kryštufek and Vohralik, 2001). As suggested by Filippucci and Simson (1996), we distinguish here a southern ( E. concolor ) and a northern ( E. roumanicus ) species. This step has also been taken by Bannikova et al. (2002). The map in Mitchell-Jones et al. (1999) refers mainly to E. roumanicus . The inclusion of rhodius follows a suggestion of B. Kryštufek (in litt., 2003) but still needs closer study.