Four-toed Hedgehog vs River sheoak

Atelerix albiventris compared with Casuarina cunninghamiana

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Four-toed Hedgehog	River sheoak
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Erinaceomorpha (Erinaceomorpha)	Fagales (Beeches & Oaks)
Family	Erinaceidae	Casuarinaceae
Genus	Atelerix	Casuarina
Species	Atelerix albiventris	Casuarina cunninghamiana

Conservation Status

Four-toed Hedgehog

LC — Least Concern

River sheoak

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Four-toed Hedgehog	River sheoak
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Four-toed Hedgehog

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Ecuador and Spain.

River sheoak

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, montane grasslands and shrublands, and deserts and xeric shrublands, among 5 distinct biome types spanning the Australasia and Afrotropic and Indomalayan realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (11 countries), Asia (8 countries), Europe (5 countries), North America (4 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (Vanuatu), and South America (4 countries).

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 1 countries:

🇪🇸 Spain