Ilin Island cloudrunner
| Ilin Island Cloudrunner | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Superfamily: | Muroidea |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Subfamily: | Murinae |
| Genus: | Crateromys |
| Species: | C. paulus |
| Binomial name | |
| Crateromys paulus Musser & Gordon, 1981 | |
The Ilin Island Cloudrunner (Crateromys paulus) is a critically endangered cloud rat from Ilin Island in the Philippines. It is a fluffy-coated, bushy-tailed rat and may have emerged from tree hollows at night to feed on fruits and leaves. It is known from one specimen, collected on 4 April 1953, and presented to the National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. The island's forests have been destroyed by human activity.
References
- 'A Gap in Nature' by Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten (2001), published by William Heinemann
- Oliver, W., Heaney, L., Ong, P. & Rodriquez, J.C. (2008). "Crateromys paulus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved December 8, 2011.
- 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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