New Guinean Jumping Mouse

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New Guinean Jumping Mouse
Fossil range: Recent
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Murinae
Genus: Lorentzimys
Jentink, 1911
Species: L. nouhuysi
Binomial name
Lorentzimys nouhuysi
Jentink, 1911

The New Guinean Jumping Mouse (Lorentzimys nouhuysi) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Lorentzimys nouhuysi. 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.