Minorcan giant dormouse

Minorcan giant dormouse
Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene-recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Gliridae
Genus: Hypnomys
Species: H. mahonensis
Binomial name
Hypnomys mahonensis

The Minorcan giant dormouse, Hypnomys mahonensis, is an extinct species of dormouse from the Pleistocene and Holocene of Minorca, Spain.

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