Glis glis 4058🐭

Photo: Azay · CC BY-SA 3.0

SpeciesRodentiaGliridae
Mammals

🐭Edible dormouse

Glis glis (Linnaeus, 1766)

큰겨울잠쥐(Glis glis)는 대형 겨울잠쥐류의 일종이다. 큰겨울잠쥐속의 유일종으로 서유럽에서 대부분 발견된다. "식용겨울잠쥐"(edible dormouse)라는 영어권 명칭은 이 동물을 진미(珍味)로 먹었던 로마인들에게서 유래했다.

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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/440th of your weight
Also called
Edible Commoner Dormouse, edible dormouse, fat dormouse, Fat Dormouse, Squirrel-tailed Dormouse
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
0.14 kg
Body length
0.18 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
8.99 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Edible dormouse

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.14 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.13 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.18 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
1.9 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
8.99 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 8.7 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
3.16 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
339 days
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Gestation
28 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 25 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 5
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 4AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Omnivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Home range
0 km²
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Population density
137 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
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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 Edible dormouse yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familyGliridae
  6. ›genusGlis
  7. ›speciesGlis glis
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderRodents · Rodentia
  3. subfamilyGlirinae
  4. genusGlis
All 15 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderEuarchontoglires
  11. orderRodents · Rodentia
  12. suborderSciuromorpha
  13. familyGliridae
  14. subfamilyGlirinae
  15. genusGlis
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More about the Edible dormouse

Closest relative on this site
🐭 Hazel dormouse — last shared an ancestor ≈ 27 million years ago.
What it eats
seeds and grain60%
fruit40%
In other languages
Siebenschläfer (de), Popielica szara (pl), plch velký (cs), Glis glis (es), Glis glis (fr), Relmuis (nl) … and 23 more languages

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