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Desert dormouse
Temporal range: Recent
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Selevinia
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Selevinia betpakdalaensis

The desert dormouse (Selevinia betpakdalaensis) is a species of rodent in the dormouse family Gliridae. When it was first found, the species was placed in its own family, the Seleviniidae, but now it is considered to be a dormouse. It is the only species in the genus Selevinia.

It is endemic to Kazakhstan.

  • 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. Selevinia betpakdalaensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 30 July 2007.

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