Graphiurus
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| African dormouse Temporal range: Late Pliocene to Recent |
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| African Dormouse, Graphiurus spec. (murinus?) | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Gliridae |
| Subfamily: | Graphiurinae Winge, 1887 |
| Genus: | Graphiurus Smuts, 1832 |
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Graphiurus angolensis |
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The African dormice, Graphiurus, are a genus of dormouse that live throughout sub-Saharan Africa in different habitats. They are good at climbing. They have bushy tails. They eat invertebrates and small vertebrates.[1]
Species [change]
- 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 [change]
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Graphiurus sp.(probably murinus) - three males in a knot-hole
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Graphiurus sp.(probably murinus) - male, look at the "bushy tail"
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Graphiurus sp. (probably murinus) - two adults eating a nectarine (compare size!)
References [change]
- ↑ The Kingdon Pocket Guide to African Mammals, Jonathan Kingdon (2004) Russel Friedman Books 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
