Desert Dormouse
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| Desert Dormouse Temporal range: Recent |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Gliridae |
| Subfamily: | Leithiinae |
| Genus: | Selevinia Belosludov & Bazhanov, 1939 |
| Species: | S. betpakdalaensis |
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| Selevinia betpakdalaensis Belosludov & Bazhanov, 1939 |
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The Desert Dormouse (Selevinia betpakdalaensis) is a species of rodent in the dormouse family Gliridae. When it was first found, the species was placed in its own family, Seleviniidae, but now it is considered to be a dormouse, the only type within the genus Selevinia.
It is endemic to Kazakhstan.
References [change]
- 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.
- Tchabovsky, A. 1996. Selevinia betpakdalaensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 30 July 2007.
