Type specimens of “ insectivoran ” mammals at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Author
Turni, Hendrik
Author
Hutterer, Rainer
Author
Asher, Robert
text
Zootaxa
2007
1470
1
33
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.273750
b791e095-c2b5-46d1-8666-d67f9f3c4347
1175-5326
273750
Erinaceus krugi
Peters, 1877
Peters, W.C.H.
(
1877
)
Ü ber eine auf der
Insel
Puertorico gemachte Sammlung von Sãugtethieren und Amphibien sowie über die Entwicklung eines Batrachiers
Hylodes martinicensis
ohne Metamorphose
.
Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1877 [for
1876
]:
703–714
.
Valid name:
Atelerix algirus
(Lereboullet, 1842)
Holotype
: ZMB 5157, sex indet., skull and skin. This specimen was collected by Krug, apparently from Mayaguez,
Puerto Rico
where it had presumably been introduced.
Comments: Hutterer (1983) favored the possibility that the
type
specimen was introduced into
Puerto Rico
from
Spain
or North Africa, as is known to be the case with
Chlorocebus aethiops
in the
Cape Verde
Islands and
Atelerix algirus
in the Canary Islands.