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Stella wood mouse
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Hylomyscus
Species:	H. stella
Binomial name
*Hylomyscus stella* (Thomas, 1911)
Synonyms
Epimys stella Thomas, 1911

The Stella hylomyscus or Stella wood mouse (Hylomyscus stella) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

References

Schlitter, D. & Van der Straeten, E. 2004. Hylomyscus stella. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
Thomas, Oldfield (1911). "Three new African rodents". Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 8. 7 (42): 590–593.

Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Stenocephalomys–Xeromys)

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

Stenocephalomys
Division

Congomys

Heimyscus

African smoky mouse (H. fumosus)

Hylomyscus
(African wood mice)

H. aeta group: Beaded wood mouse (H. aeta) Mount Oku hylomyscus (H. grandis)
H. alleni group: Allen's wood mouse (H. alleni) Angolan wood mouse (H. carillus) Hylomyscus pamfi Stella wood mouse (H. stella) Walter Verheyeni's mouse (H. walterverheyeni)
H. anselli group: Ansell's wood mouse (H. anselli) Arc Mountain wood mouse (H. arcimontensis) Kerbis Peterhans's wood mouse (H. kerbispeterhansi)
H. baeri group: Baer's wood mouse (H. baeri)
H. denniae group: Montane wood mouse (H. denniae) H. endorobae H. vulcanorum
H. parvus group: Little wood mouse (H. parvus)

Mastomys
(Multimammate rats)

Montemys

Delectable soft-furred mouse (M. delectorum)

Myomyscus
(Multimammate rats)

Verreaux's mouse (M. verreauxii)

Ochromyscus

Praomys
(African
soft-furred rats)

Serengetimys

Dwarf multimammate mouse (S. pernanus)

Stenocephalemys
(Ethiopian
narrow-headed rats)

Uromys Division

Melomys (Banana rats)	Dusky mosaic-tailed rat (M. aerosus) Rossel Island melomys (M. arcium) Bannister's rat (M. bannisteri) Bougainville mosaic-tailed rat (M. bougainville) Grassland mosaic-tailed rat (M. burtoni) Cape York melomys (M. capensis) Short-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat (M. caurinus) Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat(M. cervinipes) Yamdena mosaic-tailed rat (M. cooperae) Dollman's melomys (M. dollmani) Manusela mosaic-tailed rat (M. fraterculus) Snow Mountains grassland mosaic-tailed rat (M. frigicola) Seram long-tailed mosaic-tailed rat (M. fulgens) Riama mosaic-tailed rat (M. howi) White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat (M. leucogaster) Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat (M. lutillus) Manus Island mosaic-tailed rat (M. matambuai) Obi mosaic-tailed rat (M. obiensis) Pavel's Seram mosaic-tailed rat (M. paveli) Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat (M. rufescens) Buka Island mosaic-tailed rat (M. spechti) Long-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat (M. talaudium)
Paramelomys	Gressitt's mosaic-tailed rat (P. gressitti) Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat (P. levipes) Lorentz's mosaic-tailed rat (P. lorentzii) Thomas's mosaic-tailed rat (P. mollis) Moncton's mosaic-tailed rat (P. moncktoni) Long-nosed paramelomys (P. naso) Lowland mosaic-tailed rat (P. platyops) Mountain mosaic-tailed rat (P. rubex) Stein's paramelomys (P. steini)
Protochromys	Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat (P. fellowsi)
Solomys (Naked-tailed rats)	Poncelet's giant rat (S. ponceleti) Florida naked-tailed rat (S. salamonis) Bougainville naked-tailed rat (S. salebrosus) Isabel naked-tailed rat (S. sapientis)
Uromys (Giant naked-tailed rats)	Giant naked-tailed rat (U. anak) Biak giant rat (U. boeadii) Giant white-tailed rat (U. caudimaculatus) Emma's giant rat (U. emmae) Masked white-tailed rat (U. hadrourus) Emperor rat (U. imperator) Bismarck giant rat (U. neobritanicus) Guadalcanal rat (U. porculus) King rat (U. rex) Great Key Island giant rat (U. siebersi) Vangunu giant rat (U. vika)

Xeromys Division

Leptomys	L. arfakensis Long-footed water rat (L. elegans) Ernst Mayr's water rat (L. ernstmayri) L. paulus Fly River water rat (L. signatus)
Pseudohydromys (New Guinea false water rats)	Bishop's moss mouse (P. berniceae) Huon small-toothed moss mouse (P. carlae) Laurie's moss mouse (P. eleanorae) One-toothed shrew mouse (P. ellermani) Mottled-tailed shrew mouse (P. fuscus) German's one-toothed moss mouse (P. germani) Eastern shrew mouse (P. murinus) Musser's shrew mouse (P. musseri) Western shrew mouse (P. occidentalis) Woolley's moss mouse (P. patriciae) Southern small-toothed moss mouse (P. pumehanae) White-bellied moss mouse (P. sandrae)
Xeromys	False water rat (X. myoides)

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

Taxon identifiers
Hylomyscus stella	Wikidata: Q305521 Wikispecies: Hylomyscus stella BOLD: 359758 CoL: 6MNQ2 EoL: 1179110 GBIF: 2439340 iNaturalist: 45274 IRMNG: 10216541 ITIS: 585262 IUCN: 47979117 MDD: 1003460 MSW: 13001393 NCBI: 41265 Observation.org: 84051 Open Tree of Life: 185338

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