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Hurcheon

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Hedgehogs[1]
Temporal range: Late Eocene – Recent
Erinaceus europaeus
Scientific classification e
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Cless: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Faimily: Erinaceidae
Subfaimily: Erinaceinae
G. Fischer, 1814
Genera

The hurcheon is a wee mammal o the subfaimily Erinaceinae. There's 16 speshies o hurcheon. They bide athort pairts o Europe, Asie, Africae, an New Zealand. There's nae hurcheons that's native tae Australie, an there isna ony leevin speshies native tae North Americae; the anes that bides in New Zealand wis inbrocht. Hurcheons haena chynged ower muckle ower the bygane 15 million year. Like mony o the first mammals they hae adaptit tae be nocturnal an eat wee beasties.

References

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  1. Hutterer, R. (2005). "Order Erinaceomorpha". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 212–217. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.