Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Eulipotyphla - (Family) Erinaceidae

Original position

Bestiae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758

Subsequent positions

Erinaceini (Tribe) Fischer, 1814
Ferae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758		Ref: [von] Linné, C., 1766: 75. [assumed]

Original entries

Erinaceus europaeus Linnaeus, 1758

Subsequent entries

Hemiechinus (Subgenus) (Fitzinger, 1866)

Ref: 1979: 168.

Current position

Erinaceini (Tribe) Fischer, 1814

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 278.

Alternative positions

Bestiae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1758: 52. [new position]
Erinaceidae (Family) Fischer, 1814	Ref: R.M. Nowak, 1991: 119.
Erinaceinae (Subfamily) Fischer, 1814	Ref: R. Hutterer, 2005: 213.
Ferae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: [von] Linné, C., 1766: 75. [new position]

Historical positions

Mammalia (Class) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: F. Solé et al., 2014: fig. 9. [rough position] [inferred]
Erinaceinae (Subfamily) Fischer, 1814	Ref: R. Hutterer, 2005: 213.
Erinaceini (Tribe) Fischer, 1814	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 278-279.
Erinaceinae (Subfamily) Fischer, 1814	Ref: R. Hutterer, 1993: 77.
Erinaceinae (Subfamily) Fischer, 1814	Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 27.
Erinaceinae (Subfamily) Fischer, 1814	Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1022.
Erinaceinae (Subfamily) Fischer, 1814	Ref: W. Fiedler et al., 1973: 615.
Insectivora (Order) Bowdich, 1821	Ref: E.R. Lankester, 1877: 454. [rough position]
Ferae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. a Linné, 1766: 26, 75. [new position]
Beſtiæ (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1758: 18, 52. [new position]

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	4s;8ss
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[4s;8ss]
2005	R. Hutterer: 214	[4s;8ss]
2005	R. Hutterer: 214	[4s;8ss]
1993	R. Hutterer	[3s]
1991	G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill	[3s]
1758	C. Linnaeus	[1s]