What is Desert dormouse?
{{Taxobox | name = Desert dormouse | fossil_range = Recent | image = Selevinia betpakdalaensis.jpg | status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1 | regnum = [[Animalia]] | phylum = [[Chordata]] | classis = [[Mammalia]] | ordo = [[Rodent]]ia | familia = [[Gliridae]] | subfamilia = [[Leithiinae]] | genus = ''Selevinia'' | binomial = ''Selevinia betpakdalaensis''}} The '''desert dormouse''' (''Selevinia betpakdalaensis'') is a species of [[rodent]] in the [[dormouse]] [[family (biology)|family]] [[Gliridae]]. When it was first found, the species was placed in its own family, the Seleviniidae, but now it is [[wikt:consider|consider]]ed to be a dormouse. It is the only [[species]] in the [[genus]] ''Selevinia''. It is [[Endemism|endemic]] to [[Kazakhstan]]. ==References== *Holden M.E. 2005. Family Gliridae, 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. * Tchabovsky, A. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/20102/all Selevinia betpakdalaensis]{{Dead link|date=September 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 30 July 2007. {{Gliridae nav}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Dormice]] [[Category:Mammals of Asia]]