- Asian Garden Dormouse
Taxobox
name = Asian Garden Dormouse
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum =Animalia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Mammalia
ordo =Rodent ia
familia =Gliridae
genus = "Eliomys "
species = "E. melanurus"
binomial = "Eliomys melanurus"
binomial_authority = (Wagner, 1839)
synonyms = The Asian Garden Dormouse ("Eliomys melanurus") is a species ofrodent in theGliridae family.It is found inAlgeria ,Egypt ,Iraq ,Israel ,Jordan ,Lebanon ,Libya ,Morocco ,Saudi Arabia ,Syria ,Tunisia , andTurkey .Its naturalhabitat s are temperateforest s, subtropical or tropical dryshrubland , Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, and rocky areas.References
* Aulagnier, S. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/7619/all Eliomys melanurus] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
*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.
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