Leithiinae

Leithiinae
Dryomys nitedula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Gliridae
Subfamily: Leithiinae
Lydekker, 1896
Genera

Chaetocauda
Dryomys
Eliomys
Hypnomys
Leithia
Muscardinus
Myomimus
Selevinia

Leithiinae is a subfamily of dormice. It is named after the Leithia, an extinct genus of giant dormouse from the Pleistocene of Sicily.

Classification

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Subfamily Leithiinae

Phylogeny

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Cladogram of dormice after Bover et al. 2020:[1]

Gliridae (dormice)
Graphiurinae

Graphiurus (African dormice)

Glirinae

Glirulus (Japanese dormouse)

Glis (edible dormice)

Leithiinae

Muscardinus (hazel dormouse)

Myomimus (mouse-tailed dormice)

Dryomys (woolly and forest dormice)

Eliomys (garden dormice)

Hypnomys (Balearic dormice)

References

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  1. ^ Bover, Pere; Mitchell, Kieren J.; Torres-Roig, Enric; Llamas, Bastien; Thomson, Vicki A.; Alcover, Josep Antoni; Agustí, Jordi; Cooper, Alan; Pons, Joan (February 2020). "Ancient DNA from an extinct Mediterranean micromammal— Hypnomys morpheus (Rodentia: Gliridae)—Provides insight into the biogeographic history of insular dormice". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 58 (1): 427–438. doi:10.1111/jzs.12343. ISSN 0947-5745.
  • 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.