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Subfamily of rodents
Leithiinae
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Dryomys nitedula
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Placentalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Gliridae
Subfamily:
Lydekker, 1896
Genera

Chaetocauda
Dryomys
Eliomys
Hypnomys
Leithia
Muscardinus
Myomimus
Selevinia

Leithiinae is a subfamily of dormice. It is named after the Leithia, an extinct genus of giant dormouse from the Pleistocene of Sicily.

Classification

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Subfamily Leithiinae

Phylogeny

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Cladogram of dormice after Petrova et al. 2024:[1]

Gliridae (dormice)
Graphiurinae

Graphiurus (African dormice)

Glirinae

Glirulus (Japanese dormouse)

Glis (edible dormice)

Leithiinae

Muscardinus (hazel dormouse)

Myomimus (mouse-tailed dormice)

Selevinia (desert dormouse)

Dryomys (woolly and forest dormice)

Eliomys (garden dormice)

Hypnomys (Balearic dormice)

References

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  • 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.