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Glirulus

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Description

The Japanese dormouse (Glirulus japonicus) is a species of rodent in the family Gliridae endemic to Japan. It is monotypic within the genus Glirulus. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. In Japanese, it is called yamane (ヤマネ or 山鼠). Among dormice, it has the special ability of running at great speed upside down, suspended from branches. Its main food is insects, berries, nectar, or pollen.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glirulus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2439680	https://www.gbif.org/species/2439680
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	41588	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=41588

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Gliridae : Glirulus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
-	Glires
order	Rodentia
family	Gliridae	Muirhead 1819
subfamily	Glirinae	Thomas 1897
genus	Glirulus	Thomas 1906

Common Name

Japanese dormouse

Scientific Name

Glirulus Thomas, 1906

Name Published In

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1905(2): 347

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Glirulus	genus	belongs to Dryomyinae	stated without evidence	Daams and de Bruijn, 1995
Glirulus	genus	belongs to Gliridae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Glirulus	genus	belongs to Glirinae	stated without evidence	Kowalski, 1997

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (18%)

First Recorded Appearance

28.4 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Rodentia)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level

Common Name(s)

Japanese Dormouse

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glirulus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Amphidyromys pusillus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	9	5.33 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Glirulus conjunctus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	12.8 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Glirulus diremptus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	23.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Glirulus ekremi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Glirulus gemmula ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Glirulus japonicus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Glirulus lissiensis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	14	20.4 Ma Miocene	7.25 Ma Miocene
Glirulus minor ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Glirulus miocaenicus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Glirulus werenfelsi species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	20.4 Ma Miocene	11.1 Ma Miocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Glirurus	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Gliridae : *Glirurus*
Amphidyromys Heller, 1936	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Gliridae : *Amphidyromys*
Paraglirulus Engesser, 1972	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Gliridae : *Paraglirulus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1906	Glirulus Thomas
1936	Amphidyromys Heller
1995	Glirulus Daams and de Bruijn p. 10
1997	Glirulus Kowalski
1997	Glirulus McKenna and Bell

References

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Daams R., de Bruijn H. (1995) A classification of the Gliridae (Rodentia) on the basis of dental morphology, Hystrix 6 (n.s.) 1-2, 3-50

Kowalski K. (1997) Gliridae (Mammalia: Rodentia) from the Miocene of Belchatow in Poland, Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 40 2, 173-198

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: Family Gliridae. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2. 819-841. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Jackson, Stephen M., and Richard W. Thorington Jr., 2012: Gliding Mammals: Taxonomy of Living and Extinct Species. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, no. 638. v + 117. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

SN2000/DeBlase, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole, 2000: null. Common Names of Mammals of the World. xiv + 204. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1905 (2) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/DeBlase, 1982, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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