Minorcan Giant Dormouse

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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