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The Chinese Dormouse or Sichuan Dormouse (Chaetocauda sichuanensis) is a species of dormouse that lives in sub-alpine mixed forests in northern Sichuan, China. It is known only from two captured female specimens taken in the Wanglang Natural Reserve and was first described by Wang Youzhi in 1985 and re-listed by Corbet and Hill (1991, 1992) under a new genus as Chaetocauda sichuanensis. It is currently the only member of the genus Chaetocauda. The two specimens had head and body lengths of 90mm and 91mm and tail lengths of 92mm and 102mm respectively. They weighed 24.5g and 36g. It is nocturnal and arboreal, nesting in trees around 3 metres above the ground and was found above an altitude of 2500m above sea level. It is classified as endangered by the IUCN as of the 2004 Red List due to its small isolated habitat. [1]
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- Baillie (1996). Dryomys sichuanensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Listed as Endangered (EN B1+2c v2.3)
- Corbet, G.B. & Hill, J.E. 1991. A World List of Mammalian Species, Third edition. Natural History Museum Publications & Oxford University Press, London and Oxford.: v-viii, 1-243.
- Wang, Youzhi. 1985. A new genus and species of Gliridae. Acta Theriologica Sinica, Vol. 5 (1985), pp. 67-75.
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