Hübner R, Maddalena T, Poduschka W
Institut de zoologie et d'écologie animale, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.
Genetica. 1991;83(3):243-6. doi: 10.1007/BF00126230.
Like other hedgehog species investigated hitherto, also the Middle African species Atelerix albiventris has a diploid number of 48 chromosomes. However, Aethechinus and Atelerix display quite distinct cytogenetic characteristics compared to the hedgehog genera Erinaceus, Hemiechinus and Paraechinus. Individual chromosome structures and reactivities permit the recognition of similarities to the Algerian hedgehog Aethechinus algirus and indicate their close relationship. Nevertheless, the proposal by Corbet (1988) to merge the two taxa into one genus, which is contrary to Robbins and Setzer (1985) remains to be clarified by further investigations.
与迄今所研究的其他刺猬物种一样，中非物种南非刺猬（Atelerix albiventris）的二倍体染色体数目也是48条。然而，与刺猬属（Erinaceus）、非洲刺猬属（Hemiechinus）和林猬属（Paraechinus）相比，非洲刺猬属（Aethechinus）和南非刺猬属（Atelerix）显示出颇为不同的细胞遗传学特征。单个染色体的结构和反应性使得能够识别出与阿尔及利亚刺猬（Aethechinus algirus）的相似之处，并表明它们之间存在密切关系。尽管如此，科比特（Corbet，1988年）提出将这两个分类单元合并为一个属的提议，与罗宾斯和塞策尔（Robbins and Setzer，1985年）的观点相反，这仍有待进一步研究来阐明。
