Eliomys melanurus
(J. A. Wagner, 1839)
Black-tailed Garden Dormouse
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Euarchontoglires |
| Order | : Rodentia |
| Suborder | : Sciuromorpha |
| Family | : Gliridae |
| Subfamily | : Leithiinae |
| Genus | : Eliomys |
Species status
Authority citation
Wagner, J.A. 1839-09-20. Die Professoren Dr. A. Wagner und I. Zuccarini erstatten der Klasse Bericht über die von Hrn. Hofrath von Schubert und seinen Begleitern den Doctoren Roth und Erdl von ihrer Reise nach Aegypten und Palästina mitgebrachten Sammlungen. Gelehrte Anzeigen der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 8(37):297-302.
Authority publication link
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015033505846?urlappend=%3Bseq=152%3Bownerid=13510798895489774-156Original name as described
Myoxus melanurus
Other common names
Asian Garden Dormouse · Large-eared Garden Dormouse
Type kind
syntypes
Type locality
Sinai. Restricted by J. A. Nader and colleagues in 1983 to "vicinity of Mount Sinai," Egypt.
Biogeographic realm
Palearctic
Country distribution
Libya · Egypt · Israel · Saudi Arabia · Jordan · Lebanon · Syria · Turkey · Iraq
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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