🦔Four-toed hedgehog
Le Hérisson à ventre blanc (Atelerix albiventris) est une espèce de mammifère insectivore de la famille des Erinaceidés. Cette très petite espèce de hérissons vit dans les déserts du sud de l'Afrique, du Sénégal au Soudan et à la Zambie. Les anglophones le nomment African pygmy hedgehog (hérisson pygmée d'Afrique) à cause de sa taille réduite ou encore four-toed hedgehog (hérisson à quatre doigts) en raison de cette particularité anatomique.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 0.45 kg
- Body length
- 0.23 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 11 years
Everything we know about the Four-toed hedgehog
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.45 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 0.5 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length0.23 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass1.91 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan11 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 11 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length3.66 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity116 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation35 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 35 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter sizeabout 4COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 6AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Trophic levelOmnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.5 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 Four-toed hedgehog yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderErinaceomorpha
- ›familyErinaceidae
- ›genusAtelerix
- ›speciesAtelerix albiventris
- classMammals · Mammalia
- familyErinaceidae
- subfamilyErinaceinae
- genusAtelerix
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEulipotyphla
- familyErinaceidae
- subfamilyErinaceinae
- genusAtelerix
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