Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Erinaceomorpha > Erinaceidae > Atelerix > Atelerix algirusAtelerix algirus (North African Hedgehog)Synonyms: Erinaceus algirus (homotypic) The North African hedgehog (Atelerix algirus), or Algerian hedgehog, is a species of mammal in the family Erinaceidae. It is found in Algeria, France, Libya, Malta, Morocco, Spain, and Tunisia. Little is known about this species of hedgehog, even though the most common breed of domesticated hedgehogs is a result of crossing a four-toed hedgehog with a North African hedgehog. Because this species of hedgehog is native to Africa, it has been suggested that it was introduced by humans to the other countries where it is now found, including France and Spain (including the Canary Islands). Of the four African species of hedgehogs, the North African hedgehog is the only one of these hedgehogs that can be found outside the continent of Africa. Because the North African hedgehog has such a wide ha |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 15.11 EDGE Score: 2.78 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 1.642 lbs (745 g) |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Ectothermic [2] | 30 % | | Diet - Endothermic [2] | 10 % | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 20 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 20 % | | Diet - Plants [2] | 10 % | | Diet - Vertibrates [2] | 10 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | | Gestation [1] | 40 days | | Litter Size [1] | 5 | | Litters / Year [1] | 2 | | Maximum Longevity [3] | 7 years | | Nocturnal [2] | Yes | | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 9 inches (23 cm) | | Weaning [1] | 40 days |
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Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets |
Morocco, Spain |
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Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe |
Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia |
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Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Mediterranean woodlands and forests |
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Mediterranean Basin |
Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey |
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| Parasitized by | | | Aonchotheca erinacei | [4] | | Archaeopsylla erinacei maura | [5] | Warning (2): Undefined array key "controller" [APP/View/Helper/LinkObfuscatorHelper.php, line 64]Code Context
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London ♦ 5International Flea DatabaseEcoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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