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Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Olfactores
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Cladus: Synapsida
Cladus: Eupelycosauria
Cladus: Metopophora
Cladus: Haptodontiformes
Cladus: Sphenacomorpha
Cladus: Sphenacodontia
Cladus: Therapsida
Cladus: Theriodontia
Cladus: Eutheriodontia
Cladus: Cynodontia
Cladus: Epicynodontia
Cladus: Eucynodontia
Cladus: Probainognathia
Cladus: Prozostrodontia
Cladus: Mammaliamorpha
Cladus: Mammaliaformes
Classis: Mammalia
Cladus: Theriimorpha
Cladus: Theriiformes
Cladus: Trechnotheria
Cladus: Cladotheria
Cladus: Prototribosphenida
Cladus: Zatheria
Cladus: Tribosphenida
Cladus: Boreosphenida
Subclassis: Theria
Cladus: Eutheria
Infraclassis: Placentalia
Magnordo: Boreoeutheria
Superordo: Euarchontoglires
Cladus: Gliriformes
Grandordo: Glires
Mirordo: Simplicidentata
Ordo: Rodentia
Subordo: Sciuromorpha
Familia: Gliridae
Subfamilia: Leithiinae
Genera: Chaetocauda - Dryomys - Eliomys - Myomimus - Muscardinus - Selevinia

Name

Leithiinae Lydekker, 1896
References

Leithiinae in Mammal Species of the World.
Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.

Vernacular names
日本語: タイリクヤマネ亜科

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

Subfamily Leithiinae

Genus Chaetocauda
Chinese dormouse, Chaetocauda sichuanensis
Genus Dryomys
Woolly dormouse, Dryomys laniger
Balochistan forest dormouse, Dryomys niethammeri
Forest dormouse, Dryomys nitedula
Genus Eliomys, garden dormice
Asian garden dormouse, Eliomys melanurus
Maghreb garden dormouse, Eliomys munbyanus
Garden dormouse, Eliomys quercinus
Genus Hypnomys† (Balearic dormouse)
Hypnomys morphaeus†
Hypnomys mahonensis†
Genus Leithia†
Genus Muscardinus
Hazel dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius
Genus Myomimus, mouse-tailed dormice
Masked mouse-tailed dormouse, Myomimus personatus
Roach's mouse-tailed dormouse, Myomimus roachi
Setzer's mouse-tailed dormouse, Myomimus setzeri
Genus Selevinia
Desert dormouse, Selevinia betpakdalaensis

Phylogeny

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

Petrova, Tatyana V.; Panitsina, Valentina A.; Bodrov, Semyon Yu.; Abramson, Natalia I. (2024-09-27). "The mitochondrial genome of the critically endangered enigmatic Kazakhstani endemic Selevinia betpakdalaensis (Rodentia: Gliridae) and its phylogenetic relationships with other dormouse species". Scientific Reports. 14 (1): 22259. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-73703-2. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 11436627. PMID 39333293.

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.

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