The Somali hedgehog (''Atelerix sclateri'') is a species of

mammal Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur ...

in the family

Erinaceidae Erinaceidae is a family in the order Eulipotyphla, consisting of the hedgehogs and moonrats. Until recently, it was assigned to the order Erinaceomorpha, which has been subsumed with the paraphyletic Soricomorpha into Eulipotyphla. Eulipotyph ...

. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...

Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constitut ...

and

Somaliland Somaliland,; ar, صوماليلاند ', ' officially the Republic of Somaliland,, ar, جمهورية صوماليلاند, link=no ''Jumhūrīyat Ṣūmālīlānd'' is a ''de facto'' sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, still conside ...

. The Somali hedgehog is nocturnal.

Distribution

The Somali hedgehog is native to areas on the outer borders of Somalia and Somaliland.

Habitat

It is a savanna species that is believed to live mostly in grasslands and other open habitats.

Threats

There is little known about this species, but from what is known there are believed to be no current threats to the hedgehog's habitat.

References

* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996.
Atelerix sclateri

2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Downloaded on 30 July 2007. * Hutterer, R. 2008. Atelerix sclateri. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on 4 May 2012. Endemic fauna of Somalia Somali hedgehog Mammals of Somalia Somali hedgehog Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{erinaceidae-stub