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Species of rodent

Small-eared dormouse
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Gliridae
Genus: Graphiurus
Species: G. microtis
Binomial name
Graphiurus microtis
(Noack, 1887)
Small-eared Dormouse

The small-eared dormouse (Graphiurus microtis) is a species of rodent in the family Gliridae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Sudan, Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

References

  1. Cassola, F.; Child, M.F. (2016). "Graphiurus microtis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T9485A22221518. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T9485A22221518.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  • 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.
Extant species of family Gliridae (Dormice)
Graphiurinae
Graphiurus
(African dormice)
Leithiinae
Chaetocauda
Dryomys
(Forest dormice)
Eliomys
Muscardinus
Myomimus
Selevinia
Glirinae
Glirulus
Glis
Category
Taxon identifiers
Graphiurus microtis


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