Paraechinus aethiopicus

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	MAMMALIA	EULIPOTYPHLA	ERINACEIDAE

Scientific Name:

Paraechinus aethiopicus

Species Authority:

(Ehrenberg, 1832)

Common Name/s:

English

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Desert Hedgehog

Synonym/s:

Hemiechinus aethiopicus (Ehrenberg, 1832)

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Least Concern ver 3.1

Year Published:

2008

Assessor/s:

Hutterer, R.

Reviewer/s:

Amori, G. (Small Nonvolant Mammal Red List Authority) & Cox, N. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)

Justification:
Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, it occurs in a number of protected areas, has a tolerance of a degree of habitat modification, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

History:

1996

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Lower Risk/least concern

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species is widely distributed in the Sahara and the Middle East. In Africa, it is distributed from Mauritania, Western Sahara and Morocco in the west, to Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia in the east. In the Middle East, it has been recorded from Syria, Israel, Jordan, Iraq and marginally in Iran, and from most of the Arabian Peninsula. Insular populations occur on Djerba (Tunisia), Bahrain and Tanb (Persian Gulf). It is also thought to occur on Gran Canaria, Canary Islands through introduction (although it may also have been mistaken for Aletrix algirus) (Stone 1996).
Countries:	Native: Algeria; Bahrain; Chad; Djibouti; Egypt; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Kuwait; Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Mali; Mauritania; Morocco; Niger; Oman; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; Somalia; Sudan; Syrian Arab Republic; Tunisia; United Arab Emirates; Western Sahara; Yemen
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Population [top]

Population:	This is generally a common species.
Population Trend:	Stable

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It is widespread throughout arid desert and dry steppes (Harrison and Bates 1991; Stone 1996). It tends to favour areas where food is more easily available, such as oasis and vegetated wadis (Harrison 1991).
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	There are no major threats to this species as a whole.

Major Threat(s):

There are no major threats to this species as a whole.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	It is presumably present in many protected areas. No direct conservation measures are currently needed for this species as a whole.

Conservation Actions:

It is presumably present in many protected areas. No direct conservation measures are currently needed for this species as a whole.

Citation:	Hutterer, R. 2008. Paraechinus aethiopicus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2012.
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