Japanese Dormouse
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| Japanese dormouse | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Gliridae |
| Subfamily: | Glirinae |
| Genus: | Glirulus Thomas, 1906 |
| Species: | G. japonicus |
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| Glirulus japonicus (Schinz, 1845) |
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The Japanese dormouse (Glirulus japonicus) is a species of rodent in the Gliridae family. It is monotypic within the genus Glirulus.[citation needed] It is endemic to Japan. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. In Japanese it is called yamane (山鼠). Among dormice, it has the special ability of running at great speed upside down, suspended from branches. Its main food is nectar or pollen, although nursing females will eat small insects.
[edit] References
- 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.
- Ishii, N. & Kaneko, Y. (2008). Glirulus japonicus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 04 Jan 2009.
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