Leithiinae
| Leithiinae | |
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| Dryomys nitedula | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Gliridae |
| Subfamily: | Leithiinae Lydekker, 1896 |
| Genera | |
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Chaetocauda | |
Leithiinae is a subfamily of dormice. It is named after the Leithia, an extinct genus of giant dormouse from the Pleistocene of Sicily.
Classification
[edit]Subfamily Leithiinae
- Genus Chaetocauda
- Chinese dormouse, Chaetocauda sichuanensis
- Genus Dryomys
- Woolly dormouse, Dryomys laniger
- Balochistan forest dormouse, Dryomys niethammeri
- Forest dormouse, Dryomys nitedula
- Genus Eliomys, garden dormice
- Asian garden dormouse, Eliomys melanurus
- Maghreb garden dormouse, Eliomys munbyanus
- Garden dormouse, Eliomys quercinus
- Genus Hypnomys† (Balearic dormouse)
- Genus Leithia†
- Genus Muscardinus
- Hazel dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius
- Genus Myomimus, mouse-tailed dormice
- Masked mouse-tailed dormouse, Myomimus personatus
- Roach's mouse-tailed dormouse, Myomimus roachi
- Setzer's mouse-tailed dormouse, Myomimus setzeri
- Genus Selevinia
- Desert dormouse, Selevinia betpakdalaensis
Phylogeny
[edit]Cladogram of dormice after Bover et al. 2020:[1]
| Gliridae (dormice) |
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References
[edit]- ^ Bover, Pere; Mitchell, Kieren J.; Torres-Roig, Enric; Llamas, Bastien; Thomson, Vicki A.; Alcover, Josep Antoni; Agustí, Jordi; Cooper, Alan; Pons, Joan (February 2020). "Ancient DNA from an extinct Mediterranean micromammal— Hypnomys morpheus (Rodentia: Gliridae)—Provides insight into the biogeographic history of insular dormice". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 58 (1): 427–438. doi:10.1111/jzs.12343. ISSN 0947-5745.
- 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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