Leithiinae
| Leithiinae | |
|---|---|
 
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| Dryomys nitedula | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Class: | Mammalia | 
| Order: | Rodentia | 
| Family: | Gliridae | 
| Subfamily: | Lydekker, 1896  | 
| Genera | |
| 
 Chaetocauda  | |
Leithiinae is a subfamily of dormice. It is named after the Leithia, an extinct genus of giant dormouse from the Pleistocene of Sicily.
Classification
Subfamily Leithiinae
- Genus Chaetocauda
- Chinese dormouse, Chaetocauda sichuanensis
 
 - Genus Dryomys
- Woolly dormouse, Dryomys laniger
 - Balochistan forest dormouse, Dryomys niethammeri
 - Forest dormouse, Dryomys nitedula
 
 - Genus Eliomys, garden dormice
- Asian garden dormouse, Eliomys melanurus
 - Maghreb garden dormouse, Eliomys munbyanus
 - Garden dormouse, Eliomys quercinus

 
 - Genus Hypnomys† (Balearic dormouse)
 - Genus Leithia†
 - Genus Muscardinus
- Hazel dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius
 
 - Genus Myomimus, mouse-tailed dormice
- Masked mouse-tailed dormouse, Myomimus personatus
 - Roach's mouse-tailed dormouse, Myomimus roachi
 - Setzer's mouse-tailed dormouse, Myomimus setzeri
 
 - Genus Selevinia
- Desert dormouse, Selevinia betpakdalaensis
 
 
Phylogeny
Cladogram of dormice after Petrova et al. 2024:[1]
| Gliridae (dormice) | 
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References
- ^ Petrova, Tatyana V.; Panitsina, Valentina A.; Bodrov, Semyon Yu.; Abramson, Natalia I. (2024-09-27). "The mitochondrial genome of the critically endangered enigmatic Kazakhstani endemic Selevinia betpakdalaensis (Rodentia: Gliridae) and its phylogenetic relationships with other dormouse species". Scientific Reports. 14 (1): 22259. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-73703-2. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 11436627. PMID 39333293.
 
- 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.
 
