Graphiurus
Graphiurus
| African dormouse Temporal range: late Pliocene to Recent
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| African Dormouse, Graphiurus spec. (murinus?) | |
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| Subfamily: | Graphiurinae Winge, 1887
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| Genus: | Graphiurus Smuts, 1832
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The African dormouse, Graphiurus, is a genus of dormouse that lives throughout sub-Saharan Africa in different habitats. They are good at climbing. They have bushy tails. They eat invertebrates and small vertebrates.[1]
Species
- Graphiurus angolensis - Angolan African dormouse
- Graphiurus christyi - Christy's dormouse
- Graphiurus crassicaudatus - Jentink's dormouse
- Graphiurus johnstoni - Jouhnston's African dormouse
- Graphiurus kelleni - Kellen's dormouse
- Graphiurus lorraineus - Lorrain dormouse
- Graphiurus microtis - Small-eared dormouse
- Graphiurus monardi - Monard's dormouse
- Graphiurus murinus - Woodland dormouse
- Graphiurus nagtglasii - Nagtglas's African dormouse
- Graphiurus ocularis - Spectacled dormouse
- Graphiurus platyops - Rock dormouse
- Graphiurus rupicola - Stone dormouse
- Graphiurus surdus - Silent dormouse
- Graphiurus walterverheyeni [2]
Gallery
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Graphiurus sp.(probably murinus) - three males in a knot-hole -
Graphiurus sp.(probably murinus) - male, look at the "bushy tail" -
Graphiurus sp. (probably murinus) - two adults eating a nectarine (compare size!)
References
- ↑ Kingdon, Jonathan 2004. The Kingdon pocket guide to African mammals, Russel Friedman. ISBN 1-875091-14-9
- ↑ Systematic revision of Sub-Saharan African Dormice (Rodentia: Gliridae: Graphiurus) Part II: Description of a new species of Graphiurus from the Central Congo Basin, including morphological and ecological niche comparisons with G. crassicaudatus and G. lorraineus. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 331 :314-355. 2009
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