Atelerix algirus Lereboullet, 1842 . Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Strasbourg, 3(2), art. QQ:4.

TYPE LOCALITY: Algeria, "provient de Oran " .

DISTRIBUTION: Coastal Western Sahara to Algeria, Tunisia, and N Libya; introduced into Canary Isis, Balearic Isis, Malta, and Mediterranean France and Spain; one historical record from Puerto Rico.

SYNONYMS: caniculus, diadematus, fallax, girbaensis, krugi, lavaudeni, vagans.

COMMENTS: Authorship is often credited to Duvernoy and Lereboullet, 1842, but Saint-Girons (1972) showed that Lereboullet was the only author. Includes vagans and girbaensis as subspecies, see Hutterer (1983c).