This mentioned taxonomy is an attempt to make an conclusive assignment from the different classifications of various scientists. Because the taxonomy may change due to the latest investigative methods and other findings, our map is a guide only.
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Corresponding author (Name, Year)
Fischer von Waldheim, 1817
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Erinaceidae
German
Igel
Alternative Name
scientific
Acanthionidae
Schulze, 1900
Ref.: L. Van Valen. 1967. New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135(5):217-284
Misspelling
scientific
Erinacidae
Fischer von Waldheim, 1817
Ref.: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310
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A. Savorelli, 2017 - New species of Deinogalerix (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla) from the late Miocene of Scontrone (Abruzzo, central Italy) - Palaeontologia Electronica (20), 16A-1-26 (journal article, English)
P. C. Murphey, 2017 - Mammals from the earliest Uintan (middle Eocene) Turtle Bluff Member, Bridger Formation, southwestern Wyoming, USA, Part 2: Apatotheria, Lipotyphla, Carnivoramorpha, Condylartha, Dinocerata, Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla - Palaeontologia Electronica ( 20.2.29A), - (journal article, English)
W. W. Korth, 2016 - Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, Lagomorpha, and Rodentia (Mammalia) from Observation Quarry, Earliest Barstovian (Miocene), Dawes County, Nebraska - Annals of Carnegie Museum (83), 219-254 (journal article, English)
J. Prieto, 2015 - The Middle Miocene insectivores from Hasznos (Hungary, Nógrád County) - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (95), 431-451 (journal article, English)
J. S. Zijlstra, 2015 - Hedgehogs (Erinaceidae, Lipotyphla) from the Miocene of Pakistan, with description of a new species of Galerix - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (95), 477-495 (journal article, English)
J. J. Eberle, 2014 - Early Eocene mammals from the Driftwood Creek beds, Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park, northern British Columbia - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (34), 739-746 (journal article, English)
J. S. Zijlstra, 2012 - A nomen novum for Protechinus Lavocat, 1961 (Mammalia, Erinaceidae), a junior homonym of the valid name Protechinus Noetling, 1897 (Echinoidea, Arbacioida) - Zootaxa (3233), 67-68 (journal article, English)
R. Ziegler, 2009 - Plesiosoricids from early Oligocene fissure fillings in South Germany, with remarks on plesiosoricid phylogeny - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (54), 365-371 (journal article, English)
O. G. Bendukidze, 2009 - A revision of Late Oligocene associations of small mammals from the Aral Formation (Kazakhstan) in the National Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi - Palaeodiversity (2), 343-377 (journal article, English)
R. Ziegler, 2007 - 4. Marsupialia, Erinaceomorpha and Soricomorpha (Mammalia) - Oligocene-Miocene Vertebrates from the Valley of Lakes (Central Mongolia): Morphology, phylogenetic and stratigraphic implications. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien (108A), 53-164 (book/book chapter, English)
H. de Bruijn, 2006 - Small mammals from the Early Miocene of Sabuncubeli (Manisa, S.W. Anatolia, Turkey). - Beiträge zur Paläontologie (30), 57-87 (journal article, English)
Y. Tong, 2006 - Fossil Mammals from the Early Eocene Wutu Formation of Shandong Province - Palaeontologica Sinica, New Series C (192), 1-195 (journal article, English)
C. Doukas, 2006 - Insectivores (Erinaceomorpha, Soricomorpha; Mammalia)from Karydia and Komotini (Thrace, Greece; MN 4/5) - Beiträge zur Paläontologie (30), 109-131 (journal article, English)
C. S. Scott, 2006 - A new erinaceid (Mammalia, Insectivora) from the Late Paleocene of western Canada - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (43), 1695-1709 (journal article, English)
R. Ziegler, 2006 - Insectivores (Lipotyphla) and bats (Chiroptera) from the Late Miocene of Austria - Annalen Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (107A), 93-196 (journal article, English)
A. V. Lopatin, 2006 - Early Paleogene insectivore mammals of Asia and establishment of the major groups of Insectivora - Paleontological Journal (40), S205-S405 (journal article, English)
A. V. Lopatin, 2005 - Late Paleogene Erinaceidae (Insectivora, Mammalia) from the Ergilin Dzo Locality, Mongolia - Paleontological Journal (39), 85-92 (journal article, English)
D. E. Wilson, 2005 - - Mammal species of the world : a taxonomic and geographic reference (), 1-2142 (book, English)
R. Ziegler, 2005 - The insectivores (Erinaceomorpha and Soricomorpha, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene hominoid locality Rudabánya - Palaeontographia Italica (90), 53-81 (journal article, English)
L. D. Martin, 2004 - New insectivores from the Early Miocene of Nebraska, USA and the Hemingfordian faunal exchange - Mammalian Biology (69), 202-209 (journal article, English)
B.-Y. Wang, 2004 - Discovery of early Oligocene mammalian fossils from Danghe area, Gansu, China - Vertebrata PalAsiatica (42), 130-143 (journal article, Chinese)
P. A. Holroyd, 2004 - Auroralestes, gen. nov., a replacement name for Eolestes Bown and Schankler, 1982, a preoccupied name - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (24), 979- (journal article, English)
A. V. Lopatin, 2004 - A New Genus of the Galericinae (Erinaceidae, Insectivora, Mammalia) from the Middle Eocene of Mongolia - Paleontological Journal (38), 319-326 (journal article, English)
R. Ziegler, 2003 - Shrews (Soricidae, Mammalia) from Middle Miocene karstic fissure fill sites of Petersbuch near Eichstätt, southern Franconian Alb (Bavaria) - Paläontologische Zeitschrift (77), 303-322 (journal article, English)
L. W. van den Hoek Ostende, 2003 - Gliridae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Upper Pliocene of Tegelen (province of Limburg, The Netherlands) - Scripta Geologica (126), 203-215 (journal article, English)
L. W. van den Hoek Ostende, 2003 - Insectivores (Erinaceomorpha, Soricomorpha, Mammalia) from the Ramblian of the Daroca-Calamocha area - Coloquíos de Paleontología (Vol extr 1), 281-310 (journal article, English)
A. V. Lopatin, 2003 - A New Genus of the Erinaceidae (Insectivora, Mammalia) from the Oligocene of Mongolia - Paleontological Journal (37), 653-664 (journal article, English)
L. W. van den Hoek Ostende, 2003 - Riddleria atecensis nov. gen. nov. sp., a peculiar erinaceid (Erinaceomorpha, Mammalia) from the Lower Miocene of Spain - Beiträge zur Paläontologie (28), 1-7 (journal article, English)
A. V. Lopatin, 2003 - New Brachyericinae (Erinaceidae, Insectivora, Mammalia) from the Oligocene and Miocene of Asia - Paleontological Journal (37), 62-75 (journal article, English)
J. Alroy, 2002 - Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals - (), - (unpublished, English)
A. V. Lopatin, 2002 - The Largest Asiatic Amphechinus (Erinaceidae, Insectivora, Mammalia) from the Oligocene of Mongolia - Paleontological Journal (36), 302-306 (journal article, English)
T. Mors, 2000 - Die erst Wirbeltierfauna aus der miozanen Braunkohle der Niederrheinischen Bucht (Ville-Schichten, Tagebau Hambach) [The first vertebrate fauna from the Miocene Ville Series of the Lower Rhine Embayment (Hambach open cast mine, western Germany)] - Paläontologische Zeitschrift (74), 145-170 (journal article, German)
A. V. Lopatin, 1999 - Oligocene and Early Miocene Insectivores (Mammalia) from Western Kazakhstan - Paleontological Journal (33), 182-191 (journal article, English)
S. Bi, 1999 - Erinaceidae from the middle Miocene of North Junggar Basin, Xinjian Uygur Autonomous Region, China - Proceedings VII Annual Meeting Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (), 157-166 (journal article, English)
P. Mein, 1997 - Les mammiferes du gisement miocene inferieure de Li Mae Long, Thailande; Systematique biostratigraphie et paleoenvironment - Geodiversitas (19), 783-844 (journal article, French)
M. C. McKenna, 1997 - - Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level (), 1-640 (book, English)
A. V. Lopatin, 1996 - The Stratigraphy and Small Mammals from the Aral Formation, the Altynshokysu Locality, Northern Aral Area - Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation (4), 65-79 (journal article, English)
J.-Y. Crochet, 1995 - Le Garouillas et les sites contemporains (Oligocene, MP 25) des phosphorites du Quercy (Lot, Tarn-et garonne, France) et leurs faunes de vertebres. 4. Marsupiaux et insectivores. - Palaeontographica Abteilung A (236), 39-75 (journal article, French)
C. S. Doukas, 1995 - The Vertebrate Locality Maramena (Macedonia, Greece) at the Turolian-Ruscinian Boundary (Neogene). 5. Insectivora (Erinaceidae, Talpidae, Soricidae, Mammalia) - Münchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen (28), 43-64 (journal article, English)
G. C. Gould, 1995 - Hedgehog phylogeny (Mammalia, Erinaceidae); the reciprocal illumination of the quick and the dead - American Museum Novitates (3131), 1-65 (journal article, English)
G. F. Gunnell, 1994 - Paleocene mammals and faunal analysis of the Chappo Type Locality (Tiffanian), Green River Basin, Wyoming - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (14), 81-104 (journal article, )
P. Mein, 1993 - Galerix iberica sp. nov. (Erinaceidae, Insectivora, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene of the Iberian Peninsula. - Geobios (26), 723-730 (journal article, English)
W. W. Korth, 1992 - Fossil small mammals from the Harrison Formation (late Arikareean: earliest Miocene), Cherry County, Nebraska - Annals of Carnegie Museum (61), 69-132 (journal article, English)
L. W. van den Hoek Ostende, 1992 - Insectivore faunas from the Lower Miocene of Anatolia. Part 1: Erinaceidae - Proceedings van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (95), 437-467 (journal article, English)
G. Storch, 1991 - Insectivores (Mammalia: Erinaceidae, Soricidae, Talpidae) from the Lufeng hominoid locality, Late Miocene of China - Geobios (24), 601-621 (journal article, English)
B. Wang, 1990 - First Paleogene Mammalian Fauna from Northeast China - Vertebrata PalAsiatica (28), 165-205 (journal article, English)
R. L. Carroll, 1988 - - Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution (), 1-698 (compendium, English)
Z. Qiu, 1988 - A New Locality Yielding Mid-Tertiary Mammals Near Lanzhou, Gansu - Vertebrata PalAsiatica (26), 198-213 (journal article, Chinese)
C. S. Doukas, 1986 - The mammals of the Lower Miocene of Aliveri (Island of Evia, Greece). Part. 5. The insectivores - Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B (89), 15-38 (journal article, English)
J.-Y. Crochet, 1986 - Insectivores pliocènes du sud de la France (Languedoc-Roussillon) et du nord-est de l'Espagne. - Palaeovertebrata (16), 145-171 (journal article, French)
M. J. Novacek, 1985 - On the classification of early Tertiary Erinaceomorpha (Insectivora, Mammalia) - American Museum Novitates (2813), 1-22 (journal article, English)
J. E. Martin, 1984 - Insectivora, Sciuridae, and Cricetidae from the Early Miocene Rosebud Formation in South Dakota - Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication (9), 28-40 (journal article, English)
P. D. Gingerich, 1983 - New Adapisoricidae, Pentacodontidae, and Hyopsodontidae (Mammalia, Insectivora and Condylarthra) from the late Paleocene ofWyoming and Colorado - Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan (26), 227-255 (journal article, English)
T. M. Bown, 1982 - A review of the Proteutheria and Insectivora of the Willwood Formation (Lower Eocene), Bighorn Basin, Wyoming - United States Geological Survey Bulletin (1523), 1-79 (journal article, English)
T. H. V. Rich, 1981 - Origin and History of the Erinaceinae and Brachyericinae (Mammalia, Insectivora) in North America - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (171), 1-116 (journal article, English)
P. M. Butler, 1980 - The giant erinaceid insectivore, Deinogalerix Freudenthal, from the Upper Miocene of Gargano, Italy - Scripta Geologica (57), 1-72 (journal article, English)
B. Engesser, 1980 - Insectivora und Chiroptera (Mammalia) aus dem Neogen der Türkei - Schweizerischen Paläontologischen Abhandlungen (102), 46-149 (journal article, German)
J. Munthe, 1980 - Insectivora of the Miocene Daud Khel Local Fauna, Mianwali District, Pakistan. - Contributions in Biology and Geology: Milwaukee Public Museum (38), 1-17 (journal article, English)
G. Storch, 1978 - Die turolische Wirbeltierefauna von Dorn-Dürkheim, Rheinhessen (SW Deutschland) 2. Mammalia: Insectivora - (58), 421-449 (journal article, English)
M. T. Antunes, 1977 - Contributions à la paléontologie du Miocène moyen continental du Bassin du Tage, III; Mammifères - Póvoa de Santarém, Pero Filho et Chões (Secorio), Conclusions générales. [Paleontology of the continental middle Miocene of the Tagus Basin, III; Mammals - - Ciencias de Terra (), 143-165 (journal article, French)
M. S. Stevens, 1977 - Further study of Castolon Local Fauna (Early Miocene), Big Bend National Park, Texas - The Pearce-Sellards Series (28), 1-69 (journal article, )
C. G. Rümke, 1976 - Insectivora from Pikermi and Biodrak (Greece) - Proceedings van de Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B (79), 256-270 (journal article, English)
J.-Y. Crochet, 1974 - Les Insectivores des Phosphorites du Quercy. [Insectivores of the Quercy Phosphorites]. - Palaeovertebrata, Montpellier (6), 109-159 (journal article, French)
T. H. V. Rich, 1973 - New North American erinaceine hedgehogs (Mammalia; Insectivora) - Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas (21), 1-54 (journal article, )
G. Rabeder, 1973 - Galerix und Lanthanotherium (Erinaceidae, Insectivora) aus dem Pannon des Wiener Beckens. - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte (1973), 429-446 (journal article, German)
M. Freudenthal, 1972 - Deinogalerix koenigswaldi nov. gen., nov. spec., a giant insctivore from the Neogene of Italy - Scripta Geologica (14), 1-19 (journal article, )
J. R. Macdonald, 1970 - Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota - Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Science (8), 165-82 (journal article, English)
F. Bachmayer, 1970 - Die Fauna der altpliozänen Höhlen- und Spaltenfüllungen bei Kohfidisch, Burgenland (Österreich)- Small Mammals (Insectivora, Chiroptera, Lagomorpha, Rodentia) from the Kohfidisch Fissures of Burgenland, Austria. - Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien (74), 533-587 (journal article, German)
M. C. McKenna, 1967 - A New Insectivore from the Oligocene of Mongolia and a New Subfamily of Hedgehogs - American Museum Novitates (2311), 1-11 (journal article, English)
L. Van Valen, 1967 - New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (135), 217-284 (journal article, English)
G. T. James, 1963 - Paleontology and nonmarine stratigraphy of the Cuyama Valley badlands, California; Part 1, Geology, faunal interpretations, and systematic descriptions of Chiroptera, Insectivora, and Rodentia - University of California Publications in Geological Sciences (45), 1-154 (journal article, )
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M. C. McKenna, 1960 - Fossil Mammalia from the early Wasatchian Four Mile fauna, Eocene of northwest Colorado - University of California Publications in Geological Sciences (37), 1-130 (journal article, English)
J. R. Macdonald, 1951 - Additions to the Whitneyan fauna of South Dakota - Journal of Paleontology (25), 257-265 (journal article, English)
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J. Hürzeler, 1944 - Über einen dimyloiden Erinaceiden (Dimylechinus nov. gen.) aus dem Aquitanien der Limagne - Ecologae geologicae Helvetiae (37), 460-467 (journal article, German)
P. C. Henshaw, 1942 - A Tertiary mammalian fauna from the San Antonio Mountains near Tonopah, Nevada - Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication (530), 77-168 (journal article, English)
G. E. Meade, 1941 - A new erinaceid from the lower MIocene - Geological Series, Field Museum of Natural History (8), 43-47 (journal article, English)
H. E. Koerner, 1940 - New vertebrates Part 1 of The geology and vertebrate paleontology of the Fort Logan and Deep River formations of Montana - American Journal of Science (238), 837-862 (journal article, English)
G. L. Jepsen, 1930 - New Vertebrate Fossils from the Lower Eocene of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming - Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (69), 117-131 (journal article, English)
W. D. Matthew, 1929 - A New and Remarkable Hedgehog from the Later Tertiary of Nevada - University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences (18), 93-102 (journal article, English)
G. G. Simpson, 1928 - A new mammalian fauna from the Fort Union of southern Montana - American Museum Novitates (297), 1-15 (journal article, English)
W. D. Matthew, 1924 - New insectivores and ruminants from the Tertiary of Mongolia, with remarks on the correlation. - American Museum Novitates (105), 1-7 (journal article, English)
W. D. Matthew, 1909 - The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene - Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History (9), 289-567 (journal article, English)
C. Gaillard, 1899 - Mammifères miocènes nouveaux ou peu connus de la Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère). - Archives des Museum d'histoire Naturelle de Lyon (VII), 1-79 (journal article, French)
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J. E. Gray, 1821 - On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals - The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review (15), 296-310 (journal article, English)