Mindoro climbing rat
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| Mindoro Climbing Rat Temporal range: Recent |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Subfamily: | Murinae |
| Genus: | Anonymomys Musser, 1981 |
| Species: | A. mindorensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Anonymomys mindorensis Musser, 1981 |
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The Mindoro Climbing Rat or Mindoro Rat (Anonymomys mindorensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.[2] It is found only in the Philippines. It is the only species in the genus Anonymomys. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
References[edit]
- ^ Heaney, L. & Esselstyn, J. (2008). Anonymomys mindorensis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
- ^ Musser, Guy G. "Notes on systematics of Indo-Malayan murid rodents, and descriptions of new genera and species from Ceylon, Sulawesi, and the Philippines. Bulletin of the AMNH; v. 168, article 3." (1981).
- Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 894–1531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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