Dear Mr. Hennekam,

Thank you for your enquiry. Our database lists a total of 4 dormice.

One Graphiurus (skin with skull inside) and 4 Muscardinus avellanarius. Of those 4 Muscardinus, one is a body in spirit, one is a skull with an articulated skeleton and 2 are listed as skeletons.

We are currently in the process of moving parts of our collections as well as data basing it properly into a new museum database system (KE Emu), so not all the material might be available.

If you are indeed interested in some of these few specimens, please let me know and I will launch an in depth search trying to locate the material.

 

Sincerely,

Eileen

 

Eileen Westwig

Collections manager (Life Collections)

Oxford University Museum of Natural History

 

 

 

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Subject: Locating all Dormice

 

Dear NatSCA members,

 

I recently started my PhD on morphological changes in extant and extinct dormice. Therefore, I’m currently looking for collections that include cranial material of dormice.

Does anyone have any dormouse skull and/or lower jaw specimens in their collections?

I am especially interested in locating some material of Leithia species and Hypnomys species.

 

Kind regards,

 

Jesse Hennekam

PhD Student

Hull York Medical School

Centre for Anatomical and Human Sciences