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Small pencil-tailed tree mouse
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Chiropodomys
Species: C. pusillus
Binomial name
Chiropodomys pusillus
Thomas, 1893

The small pencil-tailed tree mouse or lesser pencil-tailed tree mouse (Chiropodomys pusillus) is a species of arboreal rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to Borneo where it is only known from Sabah and Sarawak (Malaysia) and from southern Kalimantan (Indonesia), although it likely occurs more widely.

References

  1. ^ Helgen, K.; Lunde, D.; Ruedas, L. (2008). "Chiropodomys pusillus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T4684A11085070. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T4684A11085070.en.
  2. Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 894–1531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
Extant species of subfamily Murinae (MelasmothrixMus)
Melasmothrix
division
Melasmothrix
Tateomys
(Greater Sulawesian
shrew rats)
Micromys
division
Chiropodomys
(Pencil-tailed
tree mice)
Haeromys
(Pygmy tree mice)
Hapalomys
(Marmoset rats)
Micromys
Vandeleuria
(Long-tailed
climbing mice)
Vernaya
Millardia
division
Cremnomys
Diomys
Madromys
Millardia
(Asian
soft-furred rats)
Mus division
Muriculus
Mus
(Typical mice)
See also
AethomysChrotomys
ColomysGolunda
HadromysMaxomys
OenomysPithecheir
PogonomysPseudomys
Rattus
StenocephalomysXeromys
Otomys
Others
Taxon identifiers
Chiropodomys pusillus


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