Chapa pygmy dormouse
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| Chapa pygmy dormouse | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Suborder: | Myomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Muroidea |
| Family: | Platacanthomyidae |
| Genus: | Typhlomys |
| Species: | Typhlomys cinereus |
| Subspecies: | T. c. chapensis |
| Trinomial name | |
| Typhlomys cinereus chapensis (Osgood, 1932) |
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The Chapa pygmy dormouse or Vietnamese pygmy dormouse (Typhlomys cinereus chapensis) is a rodent endemic to Vietnam. It is listed as a critically endangered species. It is often considered a separate species, but is now recognized as a subspecies of the Chinese Pygmy Dormouse (T. cinereus).
[edit] References
- Baillie (1996). Typhlomys chapensis. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 09 May 2006. Listed as Critically Endangered (CR B1+2cd v2.3)
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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