The Chinese Pygmy Dormouse (Typhlomys cinereus) is a species of rodent

Rodent

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 in the Platacanthomyidae family.
It is found in China

China

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 and Vietnam

Vietnam

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Subspecies

Musser and Carleton (2005) recognized 5 subspecies. The NW Vietnamese form Typhlomys cinereus chapensis is often treated as a distinct species, but it falls within the normal variance of Chinese T. cinereus (Musser and Carleton, 2005).

• Pygmy Dormouse or Soft-furred Tree Mouse Typhlomys cinereus Milne-Edwards, 1877
  • Typhlomys cinereus cinereus Milne-Edwards, 1877
  • Typhlomys cinereus chapensis Osgood
    Wilfred Hudson Osgood
    Wilfred Hudson Osgood was an American zoologist.Osgood was working as a biologist in the United States Department of Agriculture from 1897 to 1909. Then he moved to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, where he was assistant curator of mammalogy and ornithology from 1909 to 1921, and...
    
    , 1932
  • Typhlomys cinereus daloushanensis Wang & Li, 1996
  • Typhlomys cinereus guangxiensis Wang & Chen, 1996
  • Typhlomys cinereus jingdongensis Wu & Wang, 1984