Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Gliridae > Graphiurus > Graphiurus surdusGraphiurus surdus (silent dormouse)Synonyms: Graphiurus schwabi The silent dormouse (Graphiurus surdus) is a species of rodent in the family Gliridae. It is found in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Not determined do to incomplete vulnerability data. ED Score: 9.23 |
Diet [1] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore | Diet - Endothermic [1] | 20 % | Diet - Fruit [1] | 20 % | Diet - Invertibrates [1] | 20 % | Diet - Seeds [1] | 20 % | Diet - Vertibrates [1] | 20 % | Forages - Scansorial [1] | 100 % | | Litter Size [2] | 5 | Nocturnal [1] | Yes |
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Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests |
Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northwestern Congolian lowland forests |
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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IUCN Category |
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Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Minkebe National Park |
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1861939 |
Gabon |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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