Chinese Pygmy Dormouse

Chinese Pygmy Dormouse Temporal range: Late Miocene - Recent
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Platacanthomyidae
Genus:	Typhlomys Milne-Edwards, 1877
Species:	T. cinereus
Binomial name
Typhlomys cinereus Milne-Edwards, 1877
Subspecies
T. c. cinereus T. c. chapensis T. c. daloushanensis T. c. guangxiensis T. c. jingdongensis

The Chinese Pygmy Dormouse (Typhlomys cinereus) is a species of rodent in the Platacanthomyidae family. It is found in China and Vietnam.

Subspecies

Musser and Carleton (2005) recognized 5 subspecies. The NW Vietnamese form Typhlomys cinereus chapensis is often treated as a distinct species, but it falls within the normal variance of Chinese T. cinereus (Musser and Carleton, 2005).

• Pygmy Dormouse or Soft-furred Tree Mouse ''Typhlomys cinereus Milne-Edwards, 1877
  • Typhlomys cinereus cinereus Milne-Edwards, 1877
  • Typhlomys cinereus chapensis Osgood, 1932
  • Typhlomys cinereus daloushanensis Wang & Li, 1996
  • Typhlomys cinereus guangxiensis Wang & Chen, 1996
  • Typhlomys cinereus jingdongensis Wu & Wang, 1984

References

1. ^ Lunde, D. & Smith, A.T. (2008). Typhlomys cinereus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 17 March 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern

• Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.