What is Japanese dormouse?
<!-- This article was originally auto-generated on the English Wikipedia by [[en:User:Polbot]]. --> {{Taxobox | name = Japanese dormouse | image = ヤマネGlirulus japonicus.jpg | status = LC | status_system = iucn3.1 | regnum = [[Animalia]] | phylum = [[Chordata]] | classis = [[Mammalia]] | ordo = [[Rodent]]ia | familia = [[Gliridae]] | subfamilia = [[Glirinae]] | genus = '''''Glirulus''''' | genus_authority = Thomas, 1906 | binomial = ''Glirulus japonicus'' | binomial_authority = ([[Heinrich Rudolf Schinz|Schinz]], 1845) | synonyms = }} The '''Japanese dormouse''' (''Glirulus japonicus'') is a species of [[rodent]] in the [[Gliridae]] family. It is the only [[species]] in the genus '''''Glirulus'''''. It is [[Endemism|endemic]] to [[Japan]]. Its natural [[habitat]] is temperate [[forest]]s. In [[Japanese language|Japanese]] it is called ''Yamane'' (山鼠). It has the special ability of running at great speed upside down, underneath [[branch]]es. Its main food is [[nectar]] or [[pollen]], although [[Breastfeeding|nursing]] females will eat small insects. == References == *Holden M.E. 2005. Family Gliridae. pp.&nbsp;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. *{{IUCN2008 |assessors=Ishii N. & Kaneko Y. |year=2008 |id=9246 |title=Glirulus japonicus |downloaded=4 Jan 2009}} {{Gliridae nav}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Dormice]] [[Category:Endangered species]] [[Category:Mammals of Japan]]