Mindoro Climbing Rat

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Mindoro Climbing Rat
Fossil range: Recent
Conservation status
Scientific classification
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

The Mindoro Climbing Rat or Mindoro Rat (Anonymomys mindorensis) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. 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.

[edit] Source

  • Heaney, L. 1996. Anonymomys mindorensis. 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.