HEDGEHOGS AND SHREWS OF TURKEY — OSBORN 555 



Rhodes and Crete, Italy, Sardinia, Sicily, the Iberian Peninsula 

 (Wettstein, 1941), Palestine (Thomas, 1918), and Lebanon (Bate, 

 1945) while m other parts of the range two color bands are thought 

 to be more common. Wettstein (1953) considers that the character 

 of a single color band is older than two color bands. Further analysis 

 of facial patterns and the color bands on a geographical basis should 

 be of value ; however, considerably more collecting would be necessary. 

 The number of specimens from Turkey is small and the majority are 

 melanistic forms from the eastern Black Sea region. 



Figure 1 



Erinaceus europaeus Hemiechinus auritus 



^ probable range ^ probable range 



# localities of collection O localities of collection 



new collection records: 1 Istanbul; 2 Ta§k6prii, Yalova; 3 Talas, Kayseri; 4 Tarsus 



After Bobrinskii et al (1944), Bate (1903), Herter (1938), Van den Brink (1956), Satunin 

 (1901), Missone (1959), Hatt (1959), Markov (1957), Wettstein (1941, 1953), Thomas 

 (1918), Harrison (1956), Hoogstraal (1959), Hoogstraal and Kaiser (I960), and the British 

 Museum and the Berlin Zoological Museum collections. 



Hedgehogs could have moved between western Anatolia and Thrace 

 before the formation of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. The island 

 collections indicate that there was interchange between Greece and 

 Anatolia across "Aegean Land" (Pohle, 1953) (fig. 1). Wettstein 

 (1941, 1953) considered the specimens from the Aegean Islands and 

 Crete to show overlapping of characters from east and west. 



