🐾European hedgehog
القنفذ الأوروبي (الاسم العلمي: Erinaceus europaeus) وجد هذا النوع في دول أوروبا الغربية من إسبانيا وإيطاليا، شمالاً إلى الدول الإسكندنافية. هذا النوع شائع عموماً، ويندر في سردينيا (إيطاليا) حيث يتم اصطياده بالكلاب. وليس هناك دليل على انخفاض أعداده في نطاق انتشاره الأخرى.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.
- Body mass
- 0.78 kg
- Body length
- 0.27 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 14 years
Everything we know about the European hedgehog
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.78 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 0.75 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.27 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass3.48 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan14 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 12 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length4.4 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity266 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation36 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 30 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter sizeabout 4COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1.5AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range0.08 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density58 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.8 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for European hedgehog yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderErinaceomorpha
- ›familyErinaceidae
- ›genusErinaceus
- ›speciesErinaceus europaeus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- familyErinaceidae
- subfamilyErinaceinae
- genusErinaceus
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEulipotyphla
- familyErinaceidae
- subfamilyErinaceinae
- genusErinaceus
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