Japanese dormouse
| Japanese dormouse | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Gliridae |
| Subfamily: | Glirinae |
| Genus: | Glirulus Thomas, 1906 |
| Species: | G. japonicus |
| Binomial name | |
| Glirulus japonicus (Schinz, 1845) | |
The Japanese dormouse (Glirulus japonicus) is a species of rodent in the family Gliridae. It is monotypic within the genus Glirulus. It is endemic to Japan. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. In Japanese it is called yamane (ヤマネ or山鼠). Among dormice, it has the special ability of running at great speed upside down, suspended from branches. Its main food is insects or berry or nectar or pollen.
References
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Wikispecies has information related to: Glirulus japonicus |
- 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.
- Ishii, N. & Kaneko, Y. (2008). Glirulus japonicus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 04 Jan 2009.
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