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African dormouse Temporal range: Late Pliocene to Recent

African dormouse, Graphiurus sp. (murinus?)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Gliridae
Subfamily:	Graphiurinae Winge, 1887
Genus:	Graphiurus Smuts, 1832
Type species
Sciurus ocularis^[1]
Species
Graphiurus angolensis Graphiurus christyi Graphiurus crassicaudatus Graphiurus johnstoni Graphiurus kelleni Graphiurus lorraineus Graphiurus microtis Graphiurus monardi Graphiurus murinus Graphiurus nagtglasii Graphiurus ocularis Graphiurus platyops Graphiurus rupicola Graphiurus surdus Graphiurus walterverheyeni

The African dormice (genus Graphiurus) are dormice that live throughout sub-Saharan Africa in a variety of habitats. They are very agile climbers and have bushy tails. They eat invertebrates and small vertebrates.^[2]

Species

Genus Graphiurus, African dormice

^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
^ 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

Extant species of family Gliridae (Dormice)

Graphiurus
(African dormice)

Chaetocauda	Chinese dormouse (Chaetocauda sichuanensis)
Dryomys (Forest dormice)	Woolly dormouse (Dryomys laniger) Balochistan forest dormouse (Dryomys niethammeri) Forest dormouse (Dryomys nitedula)
Eliomys	Asian garden dormouse (Eliomys melanurus) Maghreb garden dormouse (Eliomys munbyanus) Garden dormouse (Eliomys quercinus)
Muscardinus	Hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius)
Myomimus	Masked mouse-tailed dormouse (Myomimus personatus) Roach's mouse-tailed dormouse (Myomimus roachi) Setzer's mouse-tailed dormouse (Myomimus setzeri)
Selevinia	Desert dormouse (Selevinia betpakdalaensis)

Glirulus	Japanese dormouse (Glirulus japonicus)
Glis	Edible dormouse (Glis glis) Iranian edible dormouse (Glis persicus)

Category

Sciuromorpha

†Bransatoglirinae	Bransatoglis Oligodyromys
Glirinae	Glirulus Glis
Graphiurinae	Graphiurus
Leithiinae	Chaetocauda Dryomys Eliomys †Hypnomys †Leithia Muscardinus Myomimus Selevinia

Galbreathia
†Mesogaulinae	Mesogaulus
†Mylagaulinae	Alphagaulus Ceratogaulus Hesperogaulus Mylagaulus Notogaulus Pterogaulus Umbogaulus
†Promylagaulinae	Crucimys Promylagaulus Simpligaulus Trilaccogaulus

Callosciurini	Callosciurus Dremomys Exilisciurus Glyphotes Hyosciurus Lariscus Menetes Nannosciurus Prosciurillus Rhinosciurus Rubrisciurus Sundasciurus Tamiops
Funambulini	Funambulus

Pteromyini	Aeretes Aeromys Belomys Biswamoyopterus Eoglaucomys Eupetaurus Glaucomys Hylopetes Iomys †Miopetaurista †Neopetes Petaurillus Petaurista Petinomys †Pliopetaurista Priapomys Pteromys Pteromyscus Trogopterus
Sciurini	†Douglassciurus †Freudenthalia Guerlinguetus Microsciurus †Miosciurus †Plesiosciurus †Protosciurus Rheithrosciurus Sciurus Syntheosciurus

Marmotini	Ammospermophilus †Arctomyoides Callospermophilus Cynomys Eutamias Ictidomys Marmota †Miospermophilus Neotamias Notocitellus †Nototamias Otospermophilus †Paenamarmota †Palaearctomys †Palaeosciurus Poliocitellus †Protospermophilus Sciurotamias †Spermophilinus Spermophilus Tamias Urocitellus Xerospermophilus
Protoxerini	Epixerus Funisciurus Heliosciurus Myosciurus Paraxerus Protoxerus
Xerini	†Aragoxerus Atlantoxerus Euxerus Geosciurus †Heteroxerus Spermophilopsis Xerus

Taxon identifiers
Graphiurus	Wikidata: Q385877 Wikispecies: Graphiurus ADW: Graphiurus BOLD: 397766 CoL: 636DN EoL: 42255 GBIF: 5219902 iNaturalist: 45838 ITIS: 584944 MSW: 12500003 NCBI: 51345 Open Tree of Life: 159163 Paleobiology Database: 105525 Plazi: 6502AA63-E059-FFB9-1A11-FB81FCA74978

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