Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals Order Insectivora Bowdich, 1821 - insectivores see Superorder Insectivora Bowdich, 1821 Family Erinaceidae Fischer, 1814 - gymnures and hedgehogs Subfamily Erinaceinae Fischer, 1814 - spiny hedgehogs Genus Hemiechinus Fitzinger, 1866 - long-eared desert hedgehogs Hemiechinus aethiopicus (Ehrenberg, 1832) - desert hedgehog see Paraechinus aethiopicus (Ehrenberg, 1832)