Muscardinus avellanarius - #558

Hazel Dormouse
Side view
Geographic Distribution

Europe and N Turkey: Cumbria and S England, France, Switzerland, Italy, including Sicilia, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, S and C Sweden, Poland, Ukraine, Belorus, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia east to Russia; Czech Republic and Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, Romania, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Corfu, N Turkey

Order/Family
Gliridae
Genus
Muscardinus
Specific Epithet
avellanarius
Image Location
Slovakia, southern area
Image Date
1980
Photographer
M Andera