Desert Dormouse Temporal range: Recent |
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Conservation status | |
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.