What is Graphiurus?
{{italictitle}} {{Taxobox | name = African dormouse | fossil_range = late [[Pliocene]] to Recent | image = Graphiurus_spec_-murinus-1.jpg | image_size = 300px | image_caption = African Dormouse, ''Graphiurus'' spec. (murinus?) | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordata]] | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | ordo = [[Rodent]]ia | familia = [[Gliridae]] | subfamilia = '''Graphiurinae''' | subfamilia_authority = Winge, 1887 | genus = '''''Graphiurus''''' | genus_authority = Smuts, 1832}} The '''African dormouse''', '''''Graphiurus''''', is a [[genus]] of [[dormouse]] that lives throughout [[sub-Saharan Africa]] in different [[habitats]]. They are good at climbing. They have bushy tails. They eat [[invertebrates]] and small [[vertebrate]]s.<ref>Kingdon, Jonathan 2004. ''The Kingdon pocket guide to African mammals, '' Russel Friedman. {{ISBN|1-875091-14-9}}</ref> ==Species== * ''[[Graphiurus angolensis]]'' - Angolan African dormouse * ''[[Graphiurus christyi]]'' - Christy's dormouse * ''[[Graphiurus crassicaudatus]]'' - Jentink's dormouse * ''[[Graphiurus johnstoni]]'' - Jouhnston's African dormouse * ''[[Graphiurus kelleni]]'' - Kellen's dormouse * ''[[Graphiurus lorraineus]]'' - Lorrain dormouse * ''[[Graphiurus microtis]]'' - Small-eared dormouse * ''[[Graphiurus monardi]]'' - Monard's dormouse * ''[[Graphiurus murinus]]'' - Woodland dormouse * ''[[Graphiurus nagtglasii]]'' - Nagtglas's African dormouse * ''[[Graphiurus ocularis]]'' - Spectacled dormouse * ''[[Graphiurus platyops]]'' - Rock dormouse * ''[[Graphiurus rupicola]]'' - Stone dormouse * ''[[Graphiurus surdus]]'' - Silent dormouse * ''[[Graphiurus walterverheyeni]]'' <ref>Systematic revision of Sub-Saharan African Dormice (Rodentia: Gliridae: Graphiurus) Part II: Description of a new species of ''Graphiurus'' from the Central Congo Basin, including morphological and ecological niche comparisons with ''G. crassicaudatus'' and ''G. lorraineus''. [http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/582-9.1 ''Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History'' '''331''' :3