White-Toothed Brush Mouse

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White-toothed Brush Mouse
Conservation status
Endangered
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Genus: Coccymys Species: C. albidens
Binomial name
Coccymys albidens (Tate, 1951)

The White-toothed Brush Mouse, White-toothed Melomys, or White-toothed Mouse (Coccymys albidens) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found only in Indonesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.

[edit] References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Coccymys albidens. 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.