#0135 · 🦊 mammals
European Garden Dormouse
🇳🇱 Eikelmuis ·Eliomys quercinus
📍 Bolshoy Tyuters, Kingiseppsky District, Leningrad Oblast, RU
📍 Innenstadt, Cologne, Germany
📍 Trier-Nord, 54292 Trier, Germany
📍 59850 Nieppe, France
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Roberto Ghiglia · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © guido_teppa · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Arno Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. © Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © myotischile · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Klaus Rassinger · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. Bolshoy Tyuters, Kingiseppsky District, Leningrad Oblast, RU:© mrmuhna · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Innenstadt, Cologne, Germany:© D. N. · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Trier-Nord, 54292 Trier, Germany:© slobodanmarko · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 59850 Nieppe, France:© gnormand · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The garden dormouse ( Eliomys quercinus ) is a rodent in the dormouse family.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 1,859 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1766 (260 years ago).
- Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- European Garden Dormouse
- Nederlands
- Eikelmuis
- scientific name
- Eliomys quercinus
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Rodentia
- family
- Gliridae
- IUCN Red List
- VU · vulnerable
- in NL
- native
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,556
- sightings worldwide
- 1,859
- GBIF records in NL
- 167
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1766
IUCN in Dutch: kwetsbaar. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Gliridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 45863, Wikidata Q465786, GBIF 2439683, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.