Musseromys

Musseromys
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Musseromys
Heaney, Balete, Rickart, Veluz & Jansa, 2009
Type species
Musseromys gulantang
Heaney, Balete, Rickart, Veluz & Jansa, 2009
Species

4, see text

Musseromys is a genus of rodent in the family Muridae. Four species are known, all from Luzon, Philippines:[1][2]

References

  1. Heaney, L.R.; Balete, D.S.; Rickart, E.A.; Veluz, M.J.; Jansa, S.A. (2009). "Chapter 7. A New Genus and Species of Small ‘Tree-Mouse’ (Rodentia, Muridae) Related to the Philippine Giant Cloud Rats". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 331: 205–229. doi:10.1206/582-7.1.
  2. Heaney, L.R.; Balete, D.S.; Rickart, E.A.; Veluz, M.J.; Jansa, S.A. (2014). "Three New Species of Musseromys (Muridae, Rodentia), the Endemic Philippine Tree Mouse from Luzon Island". American Museum Novitates 3802: 1–27. doi:10.1206/3802.1.
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