Vandeleuria
Appearance
Vandeleuria Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent
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Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse (Vandeleuria oleracea) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Tribe: | Vandeleurini |
Genus: | Vandeleuria Gray, 1842 |
Species | |
Vandeleuria nilagirica |
Vandeleuria is a small genus of rodent from Asia with only three species. Also known as the long-tailed climbing mouse.
Species
Genus Vandeleuria - long-tailed climbing mouse
- Nilgiri long-tailed tree mouse, Vandeleuria nilagirica Jerdon, 1867
- Nolthenius's long-tailed climbing mouse, Vandeleuria nolthenii Phillips, 1929
- Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse, Vandeleuria oleracea Bennett, 1832
References
- 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.