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Dryomys laniger  Felten and Storch, 1968
Taxonomic Serial No.: 584966

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): Woolly Dormouse [English]
  
    Woolly Forest Dormouse [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                               OrderRodentia Bowdich, 1821 – esquilo, preá, rato, roedor, rongeurs, rodents  
                                  SuborderSciuromorpha Brandt, 1855 – squirrels  
                                     FamilyGliridae Muirhead, 1819 – Dormice  
                                        SubfamilyLeithiinae Lydekker, 1896  
                                           GenusDryomys Thomas, 1906 – Forest Dormice  
                                              SpeciesDryomys laniger Felten and Storch, 1968 – Woolly Dormouse, Woolly Forest Dormouse  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Mary Ellen Holden   
  Notes: Department of Mammology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10023   
  Reference for: Dryomys laniger    
       
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  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Krystufek, Boris, and Vladimír Vohralík   
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammals of Turkey and Cyprus: Rodentia I: Sciuridae, Dipodidae, Gliridae, Arvicolinae   
  Page(s): 292   
  Publisher: Univerza na Primorskem, Znanstveno-raziskovalno sredisce Koper   
  Publication Place: Koper, Slovenia   
  ISBN/ISSN: 961-6033-60-3   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Dryomys laniger, Woolly Dormouse [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.   
  Publication Date: 1993   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing   
  Page(s): xviii + 1207   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-217-9   
  Notes: Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing   
  Reference for: Dryomys laniger   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.   
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title: Family Gliridae   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2   
  Page(s): 819-841   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8221-4   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Dryomys laniger, Woolly Forest Dormouse [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole   
  Publication Date: 2000   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Common Names of Mammals of the World   
  Page(s): xiv + 204   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-383-3   
  Notes: With contributions by Bernadette N. Graham, Adam P. Potter, and Mariana M. Upmeyer   
  Reference for: Dryomys laniger, Woolly Dormouse [English]   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China)  
       
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 Comments
       
  Comment: Status: IUCN - Lower Risk (nt)  
    Comments: Morphology, ecology and distribution reviewed by Rossolimo et al. (2001). Morphology and histology of plantar surface studied by Spitzenberger and Eberl-Rothe (1974). Photographs provided by Felten and Storch (1968). Karyology and phallic morphology given by Kivanç et al. (1997a). Distribution mapped in Kivanç et al. (1997a)  
 

 

    


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