Dinagat Bushy-Tailed Cloud Rat

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Dinagat Bushy-tailed Cloud Rat
Conservation status
Endangered
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Genus: Crateromys Species: C. australis
Binomial name
Crateromys australis Musser, Heaney & Rabor, 1985

The Dinagat Bushy-tailed Cloud Rat or Dinagat Island Cloud Rat (Crateromys australis) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found only in Philippines. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

[edit] References

• Heaney, L. 1996. Crateromys australis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 09 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.