Long-eared Hedgehog vs utile

Hemiechinus auritus compared with Entandrophragma utile

Key Differences

• Long-eared Hedgehog is Least Concern while utile is Vulnerable.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Long-eared Hedgehog	utile
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Erinaceomorpha (Erinaceomorpha)	Sapindales (Sapindales)
Family	Erinaceidae	Meliaceae
Genus	Hemiechinus	Entandrophragma
Species	Hemiechinus auritus	Entandrophragma utile

Conservation Status

Long-eared Hedgehog

LC — Least Concern

utile

VU — Vulnerable

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Long-eared Hedgehog	utile
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Long-eared Hedgehog

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Cyprus, Spain, and Ukraine.

utile

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas, and mangrove forests and coastal wetlands within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Found in Guinea. Currently classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, this species faces significant conservation challenges across its range.