Desert Dormouse

Desert Dormouse Temporal range: Recent
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Gliridae
Subfamily:	Leithiinae
Genus:	Selevinia Belosludov & Bazhanov, 1939
Species:	S. betpakdalaensis
Binomial name
Selevinia betpakdalaensis Belosludov & Bazhanov, 1939

The Desert Dormouse (Selevinia betpakdalaensis) is a species of rodent in the dormouse family Gliridae. This species was formerly placed in its own family, Seleviniidae, but it is now considered to be a dormouse, monotypic within the genus Selevinia.^[1] It is endemic to Kazakhstan.

References

1. ^ Holden, 2005

• 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.
• Tchabovsky, A. 1996. Selevinia betpakdalaensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 30 July 2007.

External links

• Media related to Selevinia betpakdalaensis at Wikimedia Commons