Christy's dormouse (''Graphiurus christyi'') is a species of

rodent Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the Order (biology), order Rodentia ( ), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and Mandible, lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal specie ...

in the family Gliridae. It is found in

Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R ...

and

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ...

. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Etymology

The dormouse ''

Graphiurus christyi Christy's dormouse (''Graphiurus christyi'') is a species of rodent in the family Gliridae. It is found in Cameroon and Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshas ...

'' was named after

Cuthbert Christy Cuthbert Christy (1863 – 29 May 1932) was an English medical doctor and zoologist who undertook extensive explorations of Central Africa during the first part of the 20th century. He was known for his work on sleeping sickness, and for the Chr ...

.Dollman, Guy (1914). "Notes on mammals collected by Dr. Christy in the Congo and by Dr. Bayer in Uganda and British East Africa". Revue zoologique africaine. 4: 75–90. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.13888

References

* Grubb, P. & Schlitter, D. 2008.
Graphiurus christyi

2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Downloaded on 18 August 2009. *Holden, M. E.. 2005. Family Gliridae. pp. 819–841 ''in'' Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. Graphiurus Mammals described in 1914 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Guy Dollman {{rodent-stub