Leithiinae Explained

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)
  • Hypnomys morphaeus†
  • Hypnomys mahonensis†
• 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]

References

• 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.

Notes and References

1. 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 . en . 14 . 1 . 22259 . 10.1038/s41598-024-73703-2 . 2045-2322 . 11436627 . 39333293.