Desert dormouse
Appearance
Desert dormouse Temporal range: Recent
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Genus: | Selevinia Belosludov & Bazhanov, 1939
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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. This species was formerly placed in its own family, Seleviniidae, but it is now considered to be a dormouse, monotypic within the genus Selevinia.[1] It is endemic to Kazakhstan.
References
- ^ Holden, 2005
- 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.
External links
- Media related to Selevinia betpakdalaensis at Wikimedia Commons