Jentink's dormouse
Species of rodent
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Conservation status | |
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Gliridae |
Genus: | Graphiurus |
Species: | G. crassicaudatus |
Binomial name | |
Graphiurus crassicaudatus (Jentink, 1888) |
Jentink's dormouse (Graphiurus crassicaudatus) is a species of rodent in the family Gliridae. It is found in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and Togo, and possibly Benin, Equatorial Guinea, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical, moist lowland forests.
References
- Grubb, P. & Schlitter, D. 2004. Graphiurus crassicaudatus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
- Holden, M. E.. 2005. Family Gliridae. pp. 819–841 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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Extant species of family Gliridae (Dormice)
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Rodentia
- Suborder: Sciuromorpha
Graphiurus (African dormice) |
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Chaetocauda |
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Dryomys (Forest dormice) |
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Eliomys |
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Muscardinus |
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Myomimus |
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Selevinia |
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Glirulus |
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Glis |
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