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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

Graphiurus sp.(probably murinus) - three males in a knot-hole
Graphiurus sp.(probably murinus) - male, look at the "bushy tail"
Graphiurus sp. (probably murinus) - two adults eating a nectarine (compare size!)

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