#0090 · 🦊 mammals

Northern White-breasted Hedgehog

🇳🇱 Oost-Europese egel ·Erinaceus roumanicus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Aleksandr Popov / Александр Попов · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Ryszard · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © cpu · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Marina Nikonorova · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Иван Тисленко · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 222, Balta Berilovac, Сербия:© Маргарита Коваленко · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. RRJW+4C, Hințești, Romania:© Radu Teodoreanu · CC BY 4.0
8. Dominikowice 526, 38-303, Polska:© rosomak · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Ciechocinek, Polen:© eva_o · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Vingio parkas, Vilnius, Vilniaus m. sav., Lietuva:© Ugnius · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The northern white-breasted hedgehog ( Erinaceus roumanicus ) is a species of hedgehog.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 15,652iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
15,652 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton in 1900 (126 years ago).