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= Hemiechinus przhewalskii Satunin, 1907

Mesechinus dauuricus (Sundevall, 1841)

Collection number:

2022

Taxonomic department number:

2022

Osteology department number:

3163

Original label:

Сев. Китай

Collection place:

China, Inner Mongolia

Collected:

Przewalsky N.M., 1874

Income number:

 

Field number:

 

«Taxon» catalogue number:

 

GenBank catalogue number:

 

Toponym:

 

Locality:

 

Habitat, biotope:

steppe

Altitude, m:

Sex:

female

Age:

adultus

Pelt:

Skin (stuffed)

Cranium presence:

present

Skeleton presence:

absent

Fixation:

dry

DNA samples:

absent

Specimen presence:

in collection

Specimen condition:

satisfactory

Geological epoch:

Holocene

Remarks:

Syn.: Mesechinus dauuricus (Sundevall, 1842). It is possible material has been collected during the First Central-Asian (Mongolian) Expedition of N.M. Przewalsky (November 1870 – October 1873), therefore, collection data "1874" is uncertain. Current species identification by Voyta L.L., 2015. Gureev A.A. in 1981 identified as belonging to Erinaceus (Hemiechinus) dauricus Sundevall, 1842.

Related publications:

Satunin K. 1907. Über neue und wenig bekannte Igel des Zoologischen Museums der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu St. Petersburg // Ежегодник Зоологического Музея Императорской Академии Наук. Т. 11. С. 167–191.

Specimen images

General view:
Skull, lateral view

Original label
 

Original label
 

Original label
 

Original label
 

Specimen details:
Skull, dorsal view

Specimen details:
Skull, ventral view

Specimen details:
Mandible

Taxonomical identifications of specimen

Hemiechinus przhewalskii Satunin, 1907 — Satunin K.A., 1907 (Accepted)