Kingdom: Animalia > Phylum: Chordata > Class: Mammalia > Order: Rodentia > Family: Myoxidae > Genus: Glis > Species: Glis glis

Edible dormouse - Glis glis (Linnaeus, 1766)

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Threat status Europe	Least Concern (IUCN)
Protected by	1 international agreement
Natura 2000 species code	2616

Distribution

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Threat and conservation status

IUCN Red List status of threatened species

The IUCN Red List threat status assesses the risk of extinction.

World

Least Concern

Europe

Least Concern

IUCN Red List Category

Not Evaluated	Near Threatened	Regionally Extinct
Not Applicable	Vulnerable	Extinct in the Wild
Data Deficient	Endangered	Extinct
Least Concern	Critically Endangered

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EU conservation status

The EU conservation status is assessed for species mentioned in the EU Habitats Directive annexes. The EU Habitats Directive does not cover this species.

Natura 2000 sites

Not available

Legal status

Mentioned in the following international legal instruments and agreements

Legal text	Annex	Conditions	More information
Convention on the conservation of European wildlife and natural habitats (Bern Convention)	Annex III: protected fauna species (All species of Gliridae)		http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cul.../bern/default_en.asp

Common names and synonyms

Common Name	Language	Reference
Edible dormouse	English	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Fat dormouse	English	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Ghiro	Italian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Gjeri	Albanian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Gjumashi i majme i pyllit	Albanian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Kunel	Estonian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Lielais susuris	Latvian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Lirón gris	Spanish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Loir gris	French	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Nagy pele	Hungarian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Navadni polh	Slovenian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Plch sivý	Slovak	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Plch velký	Czech	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Popielica	Polish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Relmuis	Dutch	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Siebenschläfer	German	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Sivi puh	Croatian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Sjusovare	Swedish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Syvsover	Danish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Syvsover	Norwegian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Unikeko	Finnish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Yediuyur	Turkish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.

Synonym	Author
Myoxus glis	(Linnaeus, 1766)
Sciurus glis	Linnaeus, 1766
Glis esculentus	Blumenbach, 1779
Glis vulgaris	Oken, 1816
Myoxus avellanus	Owen, 1840
Myoxus giglis	Cuvier, 1832
Sciurus persicus	Erxleben, 1777
Glis italicus	Barret-Hamilton, 1898
Glis insularis	Barret-Hamilton, 1899
Glis melonii	Thomas, 1907
Glis glis argenteus	Zimmermann, 1953

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ITIS search	Interagency Taxonomic Information System
NCBI	National Center for Biotechnology Information
PESI (Accepted)	Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure
Wikipedia	Wikipedia

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