Order Insectivora Author Rainer Hutterer text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 69 130 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353085 1-56098-217-9 7353085 Erinaceus europaeus Linnaeus, 1758 . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:52 . TYPE LOCALITY: "Europa", Sweden . DISTRIBUTION: W Europe; Spain to Italy and Istrian Peninsula; north to Poland , Scandinavia and NW European Russia . Islands of Ireland, Britain, Corsica , Sardinia, Sicily, and many smaller islands. European range mapped by Holz and Niethammer (1990:37) . Introduced to New Zealand , see King (1990) . SYNONYMS: caniceps, caninus, consolei, centralrossicus, dissimilis, echinus, erinaceus, hispanicus, italicus, meridionalis, occidentalis , pallidus, suillus , typicus,. COMMENTS: Formerly included amurensis and concolor , see comments therein. Subspecific boundaries are uncertain, see Corbet (1988:137) .