Asian Garden Dormouse

Taxobox
name = Asian Garden Dormouse


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Gliridae
genus = "Eliomys"
species = "E. melanurus"
binomial = "Eliomys melanurus"
binomial_authority = (Wagner, 1839)
synonyms = The Asian Garden Dormouse ("Eliomys melanurus") is a species of rodent in the Gliridae family.It is found in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey.Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, and rocky areas.

References

* Aulagnier, S. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/7619/all Eliomys melanurus] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
*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.