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Mingan shrew rat
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Rhynchomys
Species:	R. mingan
Binomial name
*Rhynchomys mingan* Rickart et al., 2019

The Mingan shrew rat (Rhynchomys mingan) is a species of shrewlike rat in the subfamily Murinae. It was discovered at elevations above 1450 m on Mt. Mingan of the central Sierra Madre of Luzon in the Philippines and described in 2019.

References

Lanese, M. (6 June 2019). "Worms lure two new species of hopping rats out of obscurity". Science News. Retrieved 2016-06-09.
Rickart, E. A; Balete, D. S; Timm, R. M; Alviola, P. A; Esselstyn, J. A; Heaney, L. R (2019). "Two new species of shrew-rats (Rhynchomys: Muridae: Rodentia) from Luzon Island, Philippines". Journal of Mammalogy. 100 (4): 1112–1129. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyz066. hdl:1808/29417.

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)

Tokudaia
(Ryukyu spiny rats)

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	mesic four-striped grass rat (R. dilectus) four-striped grass mouse (R. pumilio)

Chrotomys
Division

Apomys	Luzon Cordillera forest mouse (A. abrae) Luzon Aurora forest mouse (A. aurorae) Mount Banahaw forest mouse (A. banahao) Mount Tapulao forest mouse (A. brownorum) 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) Mount Irid forest mouse (A. iridensis) Mindanao lowland forest mouse (A. littoralis) Lubang forest mouse (A. lubangensis) Luzon giant forest mouse (A. magnus) small Luzon forest mouse (A. microdon) Mount Mingan forest mouse (A. minganensis) least forest mouse (A. musculus) long-nosed Luzon forest mouse (A. sacobianus) Sierra Madre forest mouse (A. sierrae) Luzon Zambales forest mouse (A. zambalensis)
Archboldomys	Mount Isarog shrew-mouse (A. luzonensis) Large Cordillera shrew-mouse (A. maximus)
Soricomys	Soricomys kalinga Soricomys leonardocoi Southern Cordillera shrew-mouse (S. montanus) Sierra Madre shrew-mouse (S. musseri)
Chrotomys (Luzon striped rats)	Isarog striped shrew-rat (C. gonzalesi) Mindoro striped rat (C. mindorensis) Sibuyan striped shrew-rat (C. sibuyanensis) blazed Luzon shrew-rat (C. silaceus) Luzon striped rat (C. whiteheadi)
Rhynchomys (Shrewlike rats)	Banahao shrew-rat (R. banahao) Isarog shrew-rat (R. isarogensis) Labo shrew-rat (R. labo) Mingan shrew-rat (R. mingan) 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

Taxon identifiers
Rhynchomys mingan	Wikidata: Q64555607 GBIF: 9871279 MDD: 1003302

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