Crump's Mouse

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Crump's Mouse
Fossil range: Recent
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Murinae
Genus: Diomys
Thomas, 1917
Species: D. crumpi
Binomial name
Diomys crumpi
Thomas, 1917

Crump's Mouse (Diomys crumpi) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is the only species in the genus Diomys. It is found in India and Nepal. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Diomys crumpi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
  • Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.