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Garden dormouse
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciurognathi
Family : Myoxidae
Subfamily : Leithiinae
Species : Eliomys quercinus
The Garden dormouse is listed as Vulnerable (VU), considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Countries
Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine
Facts about the garden dormouse
The garden dormouse is one of my favourite small mammals, with its striking black mask and habit of nesting in birdboxes, bird holes or forest huts. (Full text)
The rarest dormouse species in Poland, the garden dormouse, is probably found in the Beskid Zywiecki, Tatra and Pieniny areas (40M, 42M, and 43M) but little is known about its existence here. (Full text)
The Garden Dormouse is a [CITIES-listed Endangered Species] (Full text)
De eikelmuis (Eliomys quercinus) is een knaagdier uit de familie der slaapmuizen. (Full text)
“The garden dormouse is notorious for finding its way into vehicles. (Full text)
The garden dormouse is active at dusk and at night. (Full text)
Garden Dormouse / : is brownish-reds to reddish-browns with an off-white tummy. (Full text)
(1992): the fat dormouse (Glis glis) and the forest dormouse (Dryomys nitedula) are listed in the 3rd category (rare species), and the garden dormouse (Eliomys quercinus) is listed in the 4th category (indeterminate species). (Full text)
The garden dormouse is the most frequent dormouse in the Unterengadin. (Full text)
1. Eliomys, genus Eliomys -- (lerots)Eliomys
genus Eliomys
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