African dormouse facts for kids

Quick facts for kids African dormouse Temporal range: late Pliocene to Recent
African Dormouse, Graphiurus spec. (murinus?)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Gliridae
Subfamily:	Graphiurinae Winge, 1887
Genus:	Graphiurus Smuts, 1832

The African dormouse, Graphiurus, is a genus of dormouse that lives throughout sub-Saharan Africa in different habitats. They are good at climbing. They have bushy tails. They eat invertebrates and small vertebrates.

Species

• 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

Gallery

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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!)