Tapulao shrew rat

Rhynchomys tapulao
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Rhynchomys
Species:	R. tapulao
Binomial name
*Rhynchomys tapulao* Balete, Rickart, Rosell-Ambal, Jansa & Heaney, 2007

Tapulao shrew rat (Rhynchomys tapulao) is rodent in the subfamily Murinae. It was described in 2007.

References

Balete, D.S.; Rickart, E.A.; Rosell-Ambal, R.G.B.; Jansa, S.; Heaney, L.R. 2007. Descriptions of two new species of Rhynchomys Thomas (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae) from Luzon Island, Philippines. Journal of Mammalogy 88 (2): 287-301.

Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Aethomys–Chrotomys)

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordate
Class: Mammalia
Superorder: Euarchontoglires
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae

Aethomys
Division

Aethomys
(Bush rats)

Apodemus
Division

Apodemus (Old world field mice)	striped field mouse (A. agrarius) Alpine field mouse (A. alpicola) small Japanese field mouse (A. argenteus) A. avicennicus Chevrier's field mouse (A. chevrieri) South China field mouse (A. draco) yellow-necked mouse (A. flavicollis) Himalayan field mouse (A. gurkha) Caucasus field mouse (A. hyrcanicus) Sichuan field mouse (A. latronum) Ural field mouse (A. microps) broad-toothed field mouse (A. mystacinus) Western broad-toothed field mouse (A. (mystacinus) epimelas) Ward's field mouse (A. pallipes) Korean field mouse (A. peninsulae) Black Sea field mouse (A. ponticus) Kashmir field mouse (A. rusiges) Taiwan field mouse (A. semotus) large Japanese field mouse (A. speciosus) wood mouse (A. sylvaticus) Ural field mouse (A. uralensis ) Steppe field mouse (A. witherbyi)

Tokudaia (Ryukyu spiny rats)	Muennink's spiny rat (T. muenninki) Ryukyu spiny rat (T. osimensis) Tokudaia tokunoshimensis (T. tokunoshimensis)

Arvicanthis
Division

Arvicanthis (Unstriped grass mice)	Abyssinian grass rat (A. abyssinicus) Sudanian grass rat (A. ansorgei) Blick's grass rat (A. blicki) Nairobi grass rat (A. nairobae) Neumann's grass rat (A. neumanni) African grass rat (A. niloticus) Guinean grass rat (A. rufinus)

Desmomys	Harrington's rat (D. harringtoni) Yalden's rat (D. yaldeni)

Lemniscomys (Striped grass mice)	Barbary striped grass mouse (L. barbarus) Bellier's striped grass mouse (L. bellieri) Griselda's striped grass mouse (L. griselda) Hoogstraal's striped grass mouse (L. hoogstraali) Senegal one-striped grass mouse (L. linulus) Buffoon striped grass mouse (L. macculus) Mittendorf's striped grass mouse (L. mittendorfi) single-striped grass mouse (L. rosalia) Rosevear's striped grass mouse (L. roseveari) typical striped grass mouse (L. striatus) Heuglin's striped grass mouse (L. zebra)

Mylomys	African groove-toothed rat (M. dybowskii) Ethiopian mylomys (M. rex)

Pelomys (Groove-toothed creek rats)	Bell groove-toothed swamp rat (P. campanae) Creek groove-toothed swamp rat (P. fallax) Hopkins's groove-toothed swamp rat (P. hopkinsi) Issel's groove-toothed swamp rat (P. isseli) least groove-toothed swamp rat (P. minor)

Rhabdomys	R. dilectus four-striped grass mouse (R. pumilio)

Chrotomys
Division

Apomys	Luzon Cordillera forest mouse (A. abrae) Camiguin forest mouse (A. camiguinensis) Luzon montane forest mouse (A. datae) large Mindoro forest mouse (A. gracilirostris) Mount Apo forest mouse (A. hylocoetes) Mindanao montane forest mouse (A. insignis) Mindanao lowland forest mouse (A. littoralis) small Luzon forest mouse (A. microdon) least forest mouse (A. musculus) long-nosed Luzon forest mouse (A. sacobianus)

Archboldomys (Mount Isarog shrew rats)	Mount Isarog shrew mouse (A. luzonensis) Sierra Madre shrew mouse (A. musseri) Cordillera shrew mouse (A. kalinga)

Chrotomys (Luzon striped rats)	Luzon striped rat (C. whiteheadi) Mindoro striped rat (C. mindorensis) Isarog striped shrew-rat (C. gonzalesi) blazed Luzon shrew rat (C. silaceus) Sibuyan striped shrew rat (C. sibuyanensis)

Rhynchomys (Shrewlike rats)	Banahao shrew rat (R. banahao) Isarog shrew rat (R. isarogensis) Mount Data shrew rat (R. soricoides) Tapulao shrew rat (R. tapulao)

See also: Colomys–Golunda; Hadromys–Maxomys; Melasmothrix–Mus; Oenomys–Pithecheir; Pogonomys–Pseudomys; Rattus; Stenocephalomys–Xeromys; Otomys; Others

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