🐭Hazel dormouse
The hazel dormouse or common dormouse is a small dormouse species native to Europe and the only living species in the genus Muscardinus.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.
- Body mass
- 0.03 kg
- Body length
- 0.08 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 6 years
Everything we know about the Hazel dormouse
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.03 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 0.03 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.08 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan6 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 5.3 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length2.39 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity346 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation24 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 23 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter sizeabout 4COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 4AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelOmnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range0 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Hazel dormouse yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderRodentia
- ›familyGliridae
- ›genusMuscardinus
- ›speciesMuscardinus avellanarius
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- familyGliridae
- genusMuscardinus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- suborderSciuromorpha
- familyGliridae
- genusMuscardinus
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