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{{Taxobox
| name = African dormouse
| fossil_range = late [[Pliocene]] to Recent
| image = Graphiurus_spec_-murinus-1.jpg
| image_size = 300px
| image_caption = African Dormouse, ''Graphiurus'' spec. (murinus?)
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordata]]
| classis = [[Mammal]]ia
| ordo = [[Rodent]]ia
| familia = [[Gliridae]]
| subfamilia = '''Graphiurinae'''
| subfamilia_authority = Winge, 1887
| genus = '''''Graphiurus'''''
| genus_authority = Smuts, 1832}}

The '''African dormouse''', '''''Graphiurus''''',  is a [[genus]] of [[dormouse]] that lives throughout [[sub-Saharan Africa]] in different [[habitats]].  They are good at climbing. They have bushy tails.  They eat [[invertebrates]] and small [[vertebrate]]s.<ref>Kingdon, Jonathan  2004. ''The Kingdon pocket guide to African mammals, '' Russel Friedman. {{ISBN|1-875091-14-9}}</ref>
== Species ==
* ''[[Graphiurus angolensis]]'' - Angolan African dormouse
* ''[[Graphiurus christyi]]'' - Christy's dormouse
* ''[[Graphiurus crassicaudatus]]'' - Jentink's dormouse
* ''[[Graphiurus johnstoni]]'' - Jouhnston's African dormouse
* ''[[Graphiurus kelleni]]'' - Kellen's dormouse
* ''[[Graphiurus lorraineus]]'' - Lorrain dormouse
* ''[[Graphiurus microtis]]'' - Small-eared dormouse
* ''[[Graphiurus monardi]]'' - Monard's dormouse
* ''[[Graphiurus murinus]]'' - Woodland dormouse
* ''[[Graphiurus nagtglasii]]'' - Nagtglas's African dormouse
* ''[[Graphiurus ocularis]]'' - Spectacled dormouse
* ''[[Graphiurus platyops]]'' - Rock dormouse
* ''[[Graphiurus rupicola]]'' - Stone dormouse
* ''[[Graphiurus surdus]]'' - Silent dormouse
* ''[[Graphiurus walterverheyeni]]'' <ref>Systematic revision of Sub-Saharan African Dormice (Rodentia: Gliridae: Graphiurus) Part II: Description of a new species of ''Graphiurus'' from the Central Congo Basin, including morphological and ecological niche comparisons with ''G. crassicaudatus'' and ''G. lorraineus''. [http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/582-9.1 ''Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History'' '''331''' :314-355. 2009]</ref>
== Gallery ==
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Image:Graphiurus_spec_-murinus-2.jpg| ''Graphiurus'' sp.(probably ''murinus'') - three males in a knot-hole
Image:Graphiurus_spec_-murinus-3.jpg| ''Graphiurus'' sp.(probably ''murinus'') - male, look at the "bushy tail"
Image:Graphiurus_spec_-murinus-4.jpg| ''Graphiurus'' sp. (probably ''murinus'') - two adults eating a nectarine (compare size!)
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== References ==
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