Isarog Striped Shrew-Rat

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Isarog Striped Shrew-rat
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Genus: Chrotomys Species: C. gonzalesi
Binomial name
Chrotomys gonzalesi Rickart & Heaney, 1991

The Isarog Striped Shrew-rat or Mt Isarog Striped Rat (Chrotomys gonzalesi) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found only in the Philippines. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.

[edit] References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Chrotomys gonzalesi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
• 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.