Order Erinaceomorpha Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1 212 219 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 Hemiechinus Fitzinger 1866 Hemiechinus Fitzinger 1866 , Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien , 54 (1): 565 . Type Species: Erinaceus platyotis Sundevall 1842 Synonyms: Ericius Sundevall 1842 ; Erinaceolus Ognev 1928 ; Macroechinus Satunin 1907 . Species and subspecies: 2 species with 5 subspecies: Species Hemiechinus auritus (Gmelin 1770) Subspecies Hemiechinus auritus subsp. auritus Gmelin 1770 Subspecies Hemiechinus auritus subsp. albulus Stoliczka 1872 Subspecies Hemiechinus auritus subsp. aegyptius E. Geoffroy 1803 Subspecies Hemiechinus auritus subsp. libycus Ehrenberg 1833 Subspecies Hemiechinus auritus subsp. megalotis Blyth 1845 Species Hemiechinus collaris ( Gray 1830 ) Discussion: Regarded as a subgenus of Erinaceus by Gureev (1979:168) and Gromov and Baranova (1981:9) . Corbet (1978 c :15) considered Hemiechinus a distinct genus, later reviewed by Corbet (1988) , who included Mesechinus , see comments therein. Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987:12-13) included Paraechinus in Hemiechinus as a valid subgenus, as did Frost et al. (1991:27) , while Corbet (1988) argued for a generic separation of Paraechinus . Morshed and Patton (2002) analyzed a part of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene of Hemiechinus auritus , Paraechinus aethiopicus and P. hypomelas and found that Hemiechinus is paraphyletic with respect to Paraechinus . Bannikova et al. (2002) used the fingerprinting method to analyze the relationships between Erinaceus , Hemiechinus , Paraechinus , Atelerix and Neotetracus . They also found that Hemiechinus and Paraechinus do not form a monophyletic group. The present list therefore returns to the former practice of keeping Hemiechinus and Paraechinus as distinct genera, contra Frost et al. (1991) .