Highland Brush Mouse

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Highland Brush Mouse
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Murinae
Genus: Abeomelomys
Menzies, 1990
Species: A. sevia
Binomial name
Abeomelomys sevia
(Tate & Archbold, 1935)
Synonyms

Pogonomelomys sevia

The Highland Brush Mouse (Abeomelomys sevia) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found only in Papua New Guinea. It is the only species in the genus Abeomelomys, although it has been placed in Pogonomelomys in the past.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Pogonomelomys sevia. 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.