Eliomys mahonensis Bate, 1918
Minorcan giant dormouse, Menorcan giant dormouse
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Hypnomys mahonensis Bate, 1918
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Minorca (=Menorca), Spain
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Bate, D. M. A. (1918), On a new Genus of Extinct, Muscardine Rodent from the Balearic Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 88: 209-222. [Abstract]
Other references:
Agustí, Jordi, Espresate, Juli and Piñero, Pedro. (2021). Dental Variation in the Endemic Dormouse Hypnomys Bate 1918 and its Implications for the Palaeogeographic Evolution of the Balearic Islands (Western Mediterranean) during the late Neogene-Quaternary. Historical Biology 33(12): 3152-3165. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1852557
Bate, Dorothea M. A. (1914). On Remains of a Gigantic Land Tortoise (Testudo Gymnesious, N.Sp.) from the Pleistocene of Menorca. Geological Magazine (Decade VI) 1(3): 100-107. [Abstract]
Cardona, Josep Quintana and Agusti, Jordi. (2022). Dental variation in Hypnomys mahonensis Bate, 1918 (Gliridae, Rodentia, Mammalia) from the newly rediscovered type-locality of Punta Esquitxador 17 (Menorca, Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean). Historical Biology. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2022.2063054
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